· Private foundation
Candy Cane Lane Charities
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Legal Services Support | $3,585 |
| Almost Home | $3,460 |
| Tenth Life Cat Rescue | $3,324 |
| STL Youth Jobs | $2,317 |
| St Gabriels Capital Campaign | $2,194 |
| Gwendolyn Gifts | $2,178 |
| St Vincent de Paul | $2,143 |
| 100 Neediest Cases | $2,083 |
| GNB1 Advocacy Group | $1,782 |
| Carneys Kids Foundaiton | $1,086 |
| Pedal The Cause | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $992 |
| ALS Foundation | $851 |
| American Lung Assn | $851 |
| St Joan of Arc | $330 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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 -3% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue -15%
- TLTENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +11%
- AHAlmost Home2× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- SLSt Louis Youth Jobsone grant, 2023 · $6k
- LSLegal Services of Missourione grant, 2023 · $5k
- NPNEEDY PAWS RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -22%
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.
To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.
To rescue stray animals in need of medical attention, restore them to health, and place them in homes.
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…
We walk with people facing homelessness on their journey to lifelong stability.
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…
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
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…
Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.
Rescue retired greyhounds and place in homes
Urban Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems.
Loaves and fishes for st. louis, inc.'s mission is to provide uplifting and supportive services that empower our clients to become financially secure and have a stable home.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 30 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds TENTH LIFE CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds Carneys Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEEDY PAWS RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BACK BAY MISSION ↗
- Who funds STL YOUTH JOBS ↗
- Who funds GWENDOLYN'S GIFTS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Candy Cane Lane Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Candy Cane Lane Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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