· Private foundation
Bernice Priger Charitable Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY | $12,500 |
| RANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL | $12,500 |
| CHILD CENTER - MARYGROVE | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES | $5,000 |
| NURSE FOR NEWBORNS | $5,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $4,500 |
| CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH | $3,750 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS | $2,500 |
| LOGOS SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +9% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SLST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY7× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +75%
- D5DECEMBER 5TH FUND5× · 2018–2023 · $68k · revenue +65%
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS4× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CGCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $13k
- SJST JOSEPH SCHOOL FOR THE DEAFone grant, 2021 · $7k
- HPHEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICEone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -11%
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.
Empowering deaf children to listen, learn and talk.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
To assist individuals with developmental disabilities, including autism, how to learn, live, work, and participate in the community.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Partnering with the community to assist children, youth and families in their unique pursuit of health and wholeness through quality, professional and faithful services.
The mission of child's voice is to empower children with hearing loss to be successful in all educational and social settings by optimizing their listening, speaking and academic skills, our programs provide specialized support and…
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is The Covering House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds DECEMBER 5TH FUND ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BreakDown STL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds LOGOS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS ↗
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 · Berges Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn · Tsf · Jefferson Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc
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 Bernice Priger Charitable Foundation 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.
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.