· Private foundation
Christine Gempp Love Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHELSEA'S FUND | $5,000 |
| WYO THEATER | $5,000 |
| LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK | $5,000 |
| WELLSPRING HEALTH ACCESS | $5,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW | $2,500 |
| OPEN SPACE COUNCIL FOR STL | $2,500 |
| LEWIS & CLARK INC | $2,500 |
| DOG AND CAT SHELTER | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CHATILLON DEMENIL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS USA FNDTN | $1,000 |
| BEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +52% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +111%
- DCDOG & CAT SHELTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +52%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- TCTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +14%
- JPJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -78%
- MCMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
To educate the general public about the flora, fauna and scientific discoveries made during the lewis & clark expedition.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
To create and sustain an outstanding collection of scenic parks and recreation areas, and to preserve and protect significant environmental areas and historical and cultural sites
The heartland conservation alliance works with partners to protect, connect, and restore the blue river watershed and its urban greenspaces for the benefit and enjoyment of all.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is St Stanislaus Historical Museum Society Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 53 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 WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Chatillon-DeMenil House Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOG & CAT SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE OF THE BIG HORNSINC ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds BEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST STANISLAUS HISTORICAL MUSEUM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE CNCL FOR THE ST LOUIS REGION ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OZARK REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC DBA OZARK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
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 · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Adorjan Family Foundation · Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundation · P Wayne and Jane B Goode Foundation · Jane M and Bruce P Robert Charitable Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Nature Conservancy
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 Christine Gempp Love 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.