How much does August a Busch III Charitable Trust give?

August a Busch III Charitable Trust reported 62 grants totaling $1,754,246 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does August a Busch III Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Education (11%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are August a Busch III Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Missouri Baptist Healthcare Foundation ($2.7M), St Peters Senior Citizens Corporation ($1.8M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($975k).

Does August a Busch III Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does August a Busch III Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as August a Busch III Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.

Where is August a Busch III Charitable Trust based?

August a Busch III Charitable Trust is based in MO.

August a Busch III Charitable Trust

August a Busch III Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

August a Busch III Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$5.1MEducation$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.9MEnvironment$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.5MAnimals$935kArts & Culture$841kHuman Services$677kOther$0

02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $120k
$10k–50k16 grants · $336k
$50k–250k8 grants · $798k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$500,000
WILD EARTH ALLIES	$170,000
ST PETERS SENIOR CITIZENS CORPORATION	$127,846
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$100,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION	$100,000
ROSSMAN SCHOOL	$100,000
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CARE CLINIC FOUNDATION	$100,000
THE CAREGIVER CLUB	$50,000
CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$15M · 77 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+14%

Still filing today

62%

61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MB
MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +112%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
6× · 2020–2025 · $975k · revenue +38%
WE
Wild Earth Allies Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $895k · revenue +129%

Funded once

SL
ST LOUIS REGIONAL CRIME COMMISSIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +207% · 61% of their budget
TL
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $200k
CA
Cadet Air Corps Museum
one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -34% · 34% of their budget

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Saint Louis Zoo Association

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,…

Animals

Louisiana Spca Foundation Inc

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.

Animals

Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals

Zoological Society of San Diego

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.

Animals

Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals

Naples Zoo Inc

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…

Animals

Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

Chicago Zoological Society

To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.

Animals

Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; 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.

04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

74/77

Grantees still filing

52/77

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,671,120Health$3,885,834Housing & Shelter$1,861,616Human Services$1,655,000Education$1,121,000Environment$1,120,000Animals$902,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO35.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization August a Busch III Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from August a Busch III Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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