· Private foundation
Community Impact Network
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $131k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $7.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUITY HOMES | $3,284,000 |
| THE LEGACY CENTER STL | $1,890,690 |
| BEYOND HOUSING INC | $1,428,167 |
| PARENTS AS TEACHERS | $580,951 |
| BELLE CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $418,457 |
| ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK | $235,813 |
| BEYOND HOUSING CAPITAL FUND INC | $188,997 |
| URBAN SPROUTS | $182,516 |
| STAR | $160,936 |
| EPWORTH DROP-IN CENTER | $160,681 |
| UNITED 4 CHILDREN | $99,341 |
| CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $98,689 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $93,338 |
| READY READERS | $75,000 |
| SNEAKERS WITH SOUL | $52,900 |
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 (FY18–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 24 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- EHEQUITY HOMES5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +27% · 100% of their budget
- BHBEYOND HOUSING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +6%
- PAPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- RBREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue -23% · 30% of their budget
- NSNORMANDY SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2020 · $185k
- BCBelle Children't Servicesone grant, 2019 · $134k
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.
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
Economic development.
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
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…
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
Support childhood literacy
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.
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Equity Homes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 82 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 EQUITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY CENTER STL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds STL YOUTH JOBS ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Black Authors of Childrens Literature ↗
- Who funds GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING CAPITAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND ME DOWNS ↗
- Who funds MISSION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SNEAKERS WITH SOUL ↗
- Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds Affinia Healthcare ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INFANT LOSS RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds St Louis ArtWorks ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission
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 Community Impact Network 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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