· Private foundation
August a Busch III Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $336k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $798k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| WILD EARTH ALLIES | $170,000 |
| ST PETERS SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION | $127,846 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CARE CLINIC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ROSSMAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $100,000 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE CAREGIVER CLUB | $50,000 |
| CBC HIGH SCHOOL | $46,400 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $40,000 |
| ST LOUIS FIREFIGHTERS COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BACKSTOPPERS INC | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MBMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +112%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2020–2025 · $975k · revenue +38%
- WEWild Earth Allies Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $895k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS REGIONAL CRIME COMMISSIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +207% · 61% of their budget
- TLTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $200k
- CACadet Air Corps Museumone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -34% · 34% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Jonathan Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 120 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PETERS SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Wild Earth Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILD CANID SURVIVAL AND RESEARCH CENTER INC DBA ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CAREGIVER CLUB ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL CRIME COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND HOMES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Jonathan Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Cadet Air Corps Museum ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE SAFETY NET OF MO ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURFERS FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization August a Busch III Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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