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Berra Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $60,000 |
| Veterans Community Project | $40,000 |
| Boys Hope Girls Hope | $25,000 |
| Loyola Academy | $25,000 |
| Queen of Peace Center | $15,500 |
| St Patrick Center | $15,000 |
| Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital | $15,000 |
| St Joseph's Academy | $15,000 |
| St Louis University High School | $15,000 |
| Our Lady of the Pillar | $10,000 |
| The Backstoppers | $10,000 |
| Humane Society of MO | $10,000 |
| Lift for Life Gym | $7,500 |
| National Museum of Transportation | $7,400 |
| North Side Community School | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 95% 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
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION4× · 2022–2025 · $268k · revenue +32%
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $246k · revenue +48%- SLST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- WOWINGS OF HOPEone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -21%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICSone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +2%
- TMTHE MISSION CONTINUESone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -68%
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
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…
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.
Inspired by the jewish tradition to make the world a better place, jfs helps and supports people in need to meet their challenges. through a comprehensive range of services, including a food pantry, older adult services, clinical services,…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Older adults living life to the fullest.
Provide temporary care and shelter to children confronted with various life crises and to offer emergency support and community referrals to family members.
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gateway Warrior Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 58 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THIS ABLE VETERAN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' ARMS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
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 · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Berges Family Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation
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 Berra Family 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.
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