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Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$542k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$949kHuman Services$751kYouth Development$543kRecreation & Sports$440kHealth$423kAnimals$225kFood & Nutrition$216kEnvironment$190kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $390k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forest Park Forever Inc$40,000
Kirkwood Historical Society$30,000
STAGES St Louis$30,000
Salvation Army Midland Division$25,000
Shepherd's Center of Webster-Kirkwood Inc$20,000
Tower Grove Park$20,000
World Bird Sanctuary$20,000
Kirkwood Parks Foundation$15,000
Horizons St Louis in Kirkwood$15,000
Greater St Louis Area Council Boy Scouts of America$15,000
Kirk Care Inc$15,000
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri$15,000
Ranken Jordan Pediatric Hospital Foundation$10,000
Gateway Region YMCA - YMCA of the Ozarks Camp Lakewood$10,000
PreventEd$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 9%Missouri Network Against Child Abuse: $5k → 10%Kitchen Inc: $5k → 15%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 9%Missouri KidsFirst: $5k → 10%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $5k → 15%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 9%Missouri KidsFirst: $5k → 10%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 9%Missouri Network Against Child Abuse: $5k → 10%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%Missouri KidsFirst: $5k → 10%Lost & Found Grief Center: $3k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $2k → 15%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $3k → 21%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $2k → 21%Kids Win Missouri: $2k → 21%Home Sweet Home: $10k → 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $2k → 21%Nurses for Newborns: $5k → 11%Joe's Place: $4k → 11%Joe's Place: $4k → 11%International Institute of St Louis: $5k → 21%Joe's Place: $3k → 11%International Institute of St Louis: $5k → 21%JOES' PLACE: $3k → 11%Home Sweet Home: $10k → 11%Home Sweet Home: $10k → 11%Home Sweet Home: $10k → 11%Home Sweet Home: $7k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $7k → 11%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $6k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $5k → 11%Shepherd's Center of Webster-Kirkwood Inc: $20k → 11%Circle of Concern: $10k → 11%Circle of Concern: $10k → 11%Circle of Concern: $10k → 11%Circle of Concern: $8k → 11%Circle of Concern: $8k → 11%The Covering House: $3k → 11%Shepherd's Center of WebsterKirkwood Inc: $20k → 11%Shepherd's Center of WebsterKirkwood Inc: $20k → 11%Shepherd's Center of WebsterKirkwood Inc: $20k → 11%Shepherd's Center of WebsterKirkwood Inc: $20k → 11%LifeBridge Ministries: $10k → 11%KIRKWOOD AREA EVERY CHILD PROMISE: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 90 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

90 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
21

Total granted

$4.1M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+28%

Still filing today

54%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SS
    STAGES ST LOUIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +60%
  • FP
    Forest Park Forever Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +213%
  • WB
    WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • BC
    BELL CITY FIRE DISTRICT #10406
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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3
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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5
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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6
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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7
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
8
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.

Crime & Legal
11
Special Olympics Missouri Inc

Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.

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12
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sherwood Forest Camp Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Mary Culver Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 127 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/74
Grantees still filing
48/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAGES ST LOUIS: $265,000 · OtherSTAGES ST LOUISBOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARK: $185,000 · OtherBOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARKIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $135,000 · OtherSalvation Army Midland Division: $125,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $100,000 · Other+76 more: $1,662,000 · Other+76 moreKIRKWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $135,000 · Arts & CultureKIRKWOOD HI…THE MAGIC HOUSE: $95,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MAGIC H…THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN EBSWORTH PARK: $68,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRANK L…ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS SH…KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION: $37,000 · Arts & CultureKIRKWOOD AR…METROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA OF SAINT LOUIS: $33,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITA…JAZZ ST LOUIS: $16,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSHEPHERDS CENTER OF WEBSTERKIRKWOOD INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS…HOME SWEET HOME: $59,000 · Human ServicesHOME SWEE…CIRCLE OF CONCERN: $46,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE OF…MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST CHILD ABUSE: $45,000 · Human ServicesMISSOURI …ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $26,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH…LOST & FOUND: $16,000 · Human ServicesJOES PLACE CORPORATION: $14,000 · Human Services+8 more: $51,000 · Human Services+8 moreForest Park Forever Inc: $160,000 · EnvironmentForest Pa…MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $105,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI …SEED ST LOUIS: $65,000 · EnvironmentSEED ST L…FOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI: $18,000 · EnvironmentKIRK CARE INC: $78,000 · HealthPREVENTED: $68,000 · HealthDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis: $40,000 · HealthLARCHE ST LOUIS: $31,000 · HealthThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $29,000 · Health+3 more: $9,250 · HealthWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY: $150,000 · AnimalsST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsGREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPROG INC: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,622,000Arts & Culture$444,000Human Services$357,000Environment$348,000Health$255,250Animals$184,000Youth Development$156,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $265,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $160,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY: $150,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKIRKWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $135,000 over 7y, 51% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $105,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS CENTER OF WEBSTERKIRKWOOD INC: $100,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $95,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND: $80,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetKIRK CARE INC: $78,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetPREVENTED: $68,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN EBSWORTH PARK: $68,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetSEED ST LOUIS: $65,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME: $59,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB: $50,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCIRCLE OF CONCERN: $46,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST CHILD ABUSE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF ST LOUIS: $43,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKIRKWOOD THEATRE GUILD: $43,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis: $40,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $34,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORCHESTRA OF SAINT LOUIS: $33,000 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetLARCHE ST LOUIS: $31,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRanken Technical College: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $29,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $26,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC: $22,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSPROG INC: $21,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO OF MISSOURI INC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI: $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $16,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJAZZ ST LOUIS: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE WATERS: $15,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOES PLACE CORPORATION: $14,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRanken Jordan Pediatric Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
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 STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds KIRKWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERDS CENTER OF WEBSTERKIRKWOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds KIRK CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PREVENTED ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN EBSWORTH PARK ↗
  • Who funds SEED ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE OF CONCERN ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST CHILD ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds KIRKWOOD THEATRE GUILD ↗
  • Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KIRKWOOD ARTS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…Employees Community F…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Moneta Group Charitab…Edward Jones Foundati…Berges Family Foundat…Trio Foundation of St…Pott Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO73× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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