· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Caleres Cares Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Caleres Cares Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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