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Carneys Kids Foundation
Improve the lives of children through donations to local childrens charities
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $124,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $146,064 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $21,564 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Louis Crisis Nursery | $10,000 |
| KOZ for Kids | $10,000 |
| Pathways to Independence | $10,000 |
| St Louis ARC | $7,500 |
| The Bennett Project | $6,000 |
| Gateway to Great Outdoors | $6,000 |
| Coltons Cause | $5,000 |
| The Buddy Fund | $5,000 |
| Lollys Place | $5,000 |
| Assistance League of St Louis | $5,000 |
| Sherwood Forest | $5,000 |
| Kids in the Middle | $5,000 |
| Giving is a Family Tradition | $5,000 |
| Stages St Louis | $5,000 |
| Joshuas Great Things Foundation | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- SLST LOUIS ARC INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +24%
- EWEagles Wings2× · 2023–2024 · $13k · revenue +19%
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DADISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TTASKone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
Childkind's mission is to empower families caring for children involved with the child welfare system, specializing in those with special health care and developmental needs. whether it be a child with a complex medical or developmental…
We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.
The organization empowers familities and improves children's lives through comprehensive early intervention services, education, and therapeutic services. the organization primarily offers services to children from birth to three years…
To empower children with autism spectrum disorder to participate fully in all aspects of life, including home, community and education.
Children First brings the community together to create better outcomes so that every young person in St. Louis Park can thrive. We convene cross-sector initiatives working to change the odds for our children and families.
Camps For Kids' mission is to ensure that no Kansas City-area child is turned away from summer camp because of low income or physical, medical or developmental disability.
We exist to enrich the lives of children with a brain injury and give hope to their families through support and education.
Transforming the lives of children and families in our community with a continuum of care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Arc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bennett Project. 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 27 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 37 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 ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds Eagles Wings ↗
- Who funds BENNETT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds DISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
- Who funds Different Dynamics ↗
- Who funds ERIN EICKMEIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY FUND ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
- Who funds WHOLE KIDS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COLTON'S CAUSE ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Lollys Place Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVING IS A FAMILY TRADITION ↗
- Who funds WONDERLAND CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds EYE THRIVE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CREATES ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR NEWBORNS INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
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 · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis
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 Carneys Kids 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.
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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