· Private foundation
Beo Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $208k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCH | $130,000 |
| THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA | $100,000 |
| CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOO | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS IRISH ARTS | $48,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS | $35,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| TABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS SURVIVORS LEGAL SUPPORT | $15,000 |
| PARAQUAD | $10,000 |
| CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION MDA | $10,000 |
| SOULARD SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% 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.
57 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES8× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +37%
- TSTHE SOULARD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +63%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- RHROSATI-KAIN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $80k
- MUMaryville University - St Louisgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $80k · revenue +27%
- SLST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Economic development.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
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,…
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
See schedule o.the greater st. louis arts and education council (the arts and education council or the council) was the st. louis region's only united arts fund that pooled together donations from individuals, foundations and corporations…
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Art Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Casa of Southern Illinois 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 83 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 THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE SOULARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds St Louis Irish Arts ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CITY LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER PROJECT ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc ↗
- Who funds JOIN HANDS ESL ↗
- Who funds FLYOVER COMEDY FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds USA Swimming Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Washington University
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 Beo 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.