· Private foundation
Caleres Cares Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of Caleres Cares Charitable Trust’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Charities Aid Foundation America, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 45 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Caleres Cares Charitable Trust named its own grantees at scale: 80 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k95 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $263k
- $250k+2 grants · $754k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $480,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $274,100 |
| TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC | $162,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC | $100,000 |
| CONCORDANCE ACADEMY OF LEADERSHIP | $42,500 |
| PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY | $40,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER | $40,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS FASHION FUND | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| THE BLACK REP | $25,000 |
| NEW SCHOOLPARSONS SCHOOL DESIGN | $17,500 |
| ST CHARLES CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| ST LOUIS EARTH DAY | $10,956 |
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 (FY20–22, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2022, 33 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $552k · revenue +16%- TTTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $283k · revenue +4%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $55k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CCONCORDANCEone grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue +10%
- SLSt Louis Black Repertory Company Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +123%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Paws On the Ground Colorado. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 185 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Saint Louis Fashion Fund ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds St Louis Earth Day ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electric
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 Caleres Cares 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.
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goucher College — 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.
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