· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $96k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,000 |
| HOMEOWNERS FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| DUO DOGS | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHARITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INST | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $5,500 |
| BALLET 314 | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +52% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
61 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2024, 32 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $144k · revenue +146%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +59%
- DDDUO DOGS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- TBTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +9%
- LCLA COUNTY MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2022 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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 promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
How this is measured
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 169 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 THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BALLET 314 ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CARVER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Nevis Animal Speak ↗
- Who funds FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christmas Valley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christmas Valley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
Play a game based on Christmas Valley’s filings →