How much did CIVIC PROGRESS INC grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of CIVIC PROGRESS INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

graduation

2020

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

$10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS$300,000
ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION$15,000
ST LOUIS REGIONAL HEALTH COMMISSION$12,500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of CIVIC PROGRESS INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

CIVIC PROGRESS INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 6 repeat orgs$863k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$850k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+37%

Still filing today

83%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

UL
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
4× · 2017–2020 · $580k · revenue +184%
BH
BEYOND HOUSING
2× · 2017–2019 · $200k · revenue +21%
SL
ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION
4× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +61%

Funded once

SY
STL YOUTH JOBSgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +166%
SL
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue -20%
SC
STL CITIZENS FOR SAFETY
one grant, 2017 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

St Louis Community Foundation

Administer charitable funds for the betterment of st. louis

Philanthropy

Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement

St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

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St Louis Development Corporation

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the economic development activities of the city of st. louis, missouri.

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St Louis Service Bureau Foundation

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St Louis University

To seek excellence in teaching, research, health care, and service to the community as guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the society of jesus.

Education

St Louis Council of Construction Consumers

Building a better future by uniting the greater st louis region's design and construction community in achieving innovation, offering advanced education, equity empowerment, and fostering collaboration among all stakeholders

Community Improvement

St Louis Science Center Foundation

To ignite and sustain lifelong science and technology learning.

Science & Tech

Stlventureworks

To provide the greater st. louis area a program of resources and services that contribute to the success rate of business start-ups during their first four years.

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World Affairs Council of St Louis

Education, non-partisan, membership organization that encourages people and organizations in the region to take an interest in, to learn more about, and to participate to a greater extent in global matters.

International

St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth

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The Saint Louis Zoo Association

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,…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Better Family Life Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

10/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,115,750Community Improvement$285,260Human Services$250,000Youth Development$200,000Housing & Shelter$200,000Philanthropy$150,000Education$125,000

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Regional Business Council · Washington University · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Bjc Health System · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Crawford Taylor Foundation

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 organisation CIVIC PROGRESS INC 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CIVIC PROGRESS ACTION COMMITTEE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 431368074 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CIVIC PROGRESS ACTION COMMITTEE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 46% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Civic Progress Inc?

Find your warmest path to Civic Progress Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CIVIC PROGRESS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Progress Inc?

More from the funding graph

CIVIC PROGRESS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Civic Progress Inc?

More from the funding graph