· Private foundation
Candy Cane Lane Charities
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Louis Youth Jobs | $5,748 |
| Carneys Kids Foundation | $5,307 |
| 100 Neediest Cases | $5,045 |
| Legal Services of Missouri | $4,652 |
| Tenth Life Cat Rescue | $3,445 |
| Almost Home | $3,307 |
| Needy Paws Rescue | $3,078 |
| St Joan of Arc | $2,567 |
| American-Czech Educaitonal Ctr | $2,544 |
| Back Bay Mission | $2,396 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,291 |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $2,253 |
| Operation Food Search | $1,927 |
| ALS Assn | $1,757 |
| American Lung Assn | $1,757 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your 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.
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.
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.
To rescue stray animals in need of medical attention, restore them to health, and place them in homes.
Our organization believes it is our moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of rescued animals and place them in loving permanent homes in st. louis metro.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
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…
Promotes the well-being of companion animals and pets that enrich the lives of the people who love them.
The mission of Open Door Animal Sanctuary is to provide homeless cats and dogs with highest quality of life and a second chance to find a forever family. Open door is currently one of the largest no-kill shelters in the Greater St. Louis…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the organization's vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
Provide affordable, accessible, quality pet resources and champion a thriving pet welfare community to the over 55,000 people who live in the East Side Pet District - East St. Louis, Cahokia Heights Washington Park and Fairmont City.
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
Working with local non-profit agencies, Caritas Connections provides food, clothing, personal care items, cleaning supplies and other items that help alleviate suffering. Caritas Connections distributes items at no cost to worthy…
Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center and the most unlike its peers is Carneys Kids Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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.
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: Edward Jones Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Candy Cane Lane Charities 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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