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Bodine Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$151k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$99kEducation$93kReligion$92kHealth$40kHuman Services$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kArts & Culture$19kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$2,200
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian$40,000
Suncoast Humane Society$17,500
Individual grant recipient$17,000
MICDS$15,250
GICIA$10,000
Saint Louis Children's Hospital Foundation$5,000
Best Buddies International$5,000
Whitfield School$5,000
St Louis University Mens Soccer Development$5,000
Humane Society of Missouri$5,000
St Louis Service Bureau$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Chaminade College Preparatory$3,000
Saint Louis Zoo$2,500
Nine PBS$2,200
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) 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.

area typical 10%Liberty Youth Ranch: $1k → 11%Mason Home of Missouri: $125 → 17%Paws Assitance Dogs: $1k → 10%St Louis Service Bureau: $5k → 11%The Buddy Fund: $100 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MT
IL
NY
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CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$370k · 52 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
53

Total granted

$370k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+42%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • MI
    Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School
    5× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +90%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +105%
  • TB
    THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS
    6× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • AP
    ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURIgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +112%
  • MH
    Mercy Health Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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.

3
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
4
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
5
Chicago Zoological Society

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

Animals
6
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
7
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
8
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
9
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
10
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
11
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

12
St Louis Science Center Foundation

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).

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Evans School 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 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr16%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr17%6%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr16%73%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
3,805/28,690

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.

04the grantee network

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 119 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

the Kirk of the Hills Presbeterian — $40,000 · Otherthe Kirk of the Hills PresbeterianKirk of the Hills Presbyterian — $40,000 · OtherKirk of the Hills PresbyterianST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU FOUNDATION — $25,300 · OtherST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU FOUNDATIONTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $23,100 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISCHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $23,000 · OtherCHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORYIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherWHITFIELD SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · OtherSaint Louis zoo — $18,205 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $17,000 · OtherCommunity School — $15,100 · OtherGICIA — $15,000 · Other+73 more — $141,274 · Other+73 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $22,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC — $18,500 · AnimalsSUNCOAST HUMAN…Humane World for Animals Inc — $14,350 · AnimalsHumane World f…ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI — $10,000 · AnimalsANIMAL PROTECT…Dogwood Animal Shelter Inc — $4,000 · AnimalsDogwood Animal…+2 more — $2,450 · AnimalsMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School — $25,450 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $1,350 · EducationMIRIAM FOUNDATION — $1,015 · Education+4 more — $1,250 · EducationTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $10,100 · HealthSSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $5,480 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $4,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $3,200 · Arts & CultureProject Liberty Ship Inc — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $600 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC — $500 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $400 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $100 · Arts & CultureDucks Unlimited Inc — $3,300 · EnvironmentNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE — $1,350 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,200 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $500 · EnvironmentST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU — $5,000 · Human ServicesLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc — $1,000 · Human Services+2 more — $225 · Human Services
Other$397,979Animals$71,300Education$29,065Health$15,780Arts & Culture$10,800Environment$7,850Human Services$7,225

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School — $25,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU FOUNDATION — $25,300 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $23,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWHITFIELD SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC — $18,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $14,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $10,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION — $6,600 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF ST LOUIS — $6,075 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetSSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $5,480 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDogwood Animal Shelter Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL — $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAXYS ASSOC FOR X AND Y CHROMOSOME VARIATIONS — $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE — $1,350 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION — $1,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION — $1,015 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY YOUTH RANCH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Liberty Ship Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGolden PAWS Assistance Dogs Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI APPLESEED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE — $1,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC HOME OF MISSOURI — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School
  • Who funds ST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
  • Who funds WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI
  • Who funds VP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF ST LOUIS
  • Who funds SSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
  • Who funds ST LOUIS SERVICE BUREAU
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc
  • Who funds Dogwood Animal Shelter Inc
  • Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc
  • Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA 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.

World Wide Technology FoundationMO27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares 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 Bodine Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc3% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bodine Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bodine Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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