· Private foundation
Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $40,000 |
| Kirkwood Historical Society | $30,000 |
| STAGES St Louis | $30,000 |
| Salvation Army Midland Division | $25,000 |
| Tower Grove Park | $20,000 |
| World Bird Sanctuary | $20,000 |
| Shepherd's Center of Webster-Kirkwood Inc | $20,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri | $15,000 |
| Kirkwood Parks Foundation | $15,000 |
| Greater St Louis Area Council Boy Scouts of America | $15,000 |
| Horizons St Louis in Kirkwood | $15,000 |
| Kirk Care Inc | $15,000 |
| PreventEd | $10,000 |
| Ranken Jordan Pediatric Hospital Foundation | $10,000 |
| National Museum of Transportation | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- SSSTAGES ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +16%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +213%
- WBWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $12k
- BCBELL CITY FIRE DISTRICT #10406one grant, 2017 · $11k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -54%
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Economic development.
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.
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…
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.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
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.…
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…
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.
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.
Community Development and Community Center and social services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sherwood Forest Camp Inc and 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 127 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 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 MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST CHILD ABUSE ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Clifford Willard Gaylord 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.
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