· Private foundation
Boniface Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $981k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+13 grants · $9.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| DOGS FOR OUR BRAVE | $1,800,000 |
| MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH | $1,000,000 |
| BEYOND HOUSING | $750,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $588,000 |
| INVESTSTL | $500,000 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS | $451,500 |
| HEALTH HOMES | $375,000 |
| YOUTH IN NEED | $270,000 |
| MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL | $260,000 |
| OUR LITTLE HAVEN | $258,500 |
| ACCESS ACADEMIES | $251,500 |
| EYE THRIVE | $250,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $200,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% 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.
59 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 19 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
- MHMERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH5× · 2020–2024 · $26M · revenue +40%
- NSNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +219% · 58% of their budget
- LALOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +138%
Funded once
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $3.0M
- HAHEALTH AND HOMES ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +52%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.
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.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
St. francis community services empowers low-income multicultural individuals and families by providing educational opportunities, holistic services, and legal aid to create a lasting impact on their lives and our communities.
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…
The mission of peace for kids is to provide a comprehensive, quality child development program for a diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. peace for kids is committed to assisting working families with safe, quality child care at…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Louis Counseling Inc and the most unlike its peers is All Secure Foundation 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 31 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 95 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 MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Dogs For Our Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds EYE THRIVE ↗
- Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE 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 · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust
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 Boniface 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.