Missouri · Private foundation
Christmas Valley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $275k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Christmas Valley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $275k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $325k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $256k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $165k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $149k | 74% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $87k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $82k | 76% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $101k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $143,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Life | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Duo Dogs Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 2% |
| St Louis Catholic Academy | $58,210 | 8 | n/a |
| St Martins Episcopal Church | $41,500 | 7 | n/a |
| The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children | $41,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $24,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ballet 314 | $18,500 | 4 | 7% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 100 recipients with no EIN on record ($613k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christmas Valley Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Service Bureau Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation
How this is measured
About Christmas Valley Foundation
- How much does Christmas Valley Foundation give?
- Christmas Valley Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $274,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Christmas Valley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (12%), Human Services (11%), Education (9%).
- Who are Christmas Valley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Saint Louis Zoo Association ($144k), Young Life ($125k), Duo Dogs Inc ($62k).
- Does Christmas Valley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Christmas Valley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Christmas Valley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Christmas Valley Foundation based?
- Christmas Valley Foundation is based in MO.
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