· Public charity
Cortex
Founded in 2002, CORTEX mission is the creation of the midwest's premier innovation hub of bioscience and technology research, development and commercialization, serving as the anchor of st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $2,167,492 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,273,404 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,912 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PER SCHOLAS | $1,206,735 |
| LAUNCHCODE | $475,000 |
| CYBERUP | $150,000 |
| PROPEL KITCHENS | $150,000 |
| NPOWER | $110,290 |
| TECH STL | $37,500 |
| GLOBAL INSTITUTE ON INNOVATION DISTRICTS | $16,667 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST LOUIS | $8,000 |
| PARK CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT | $7,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS | $6,300 |
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 (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- TLTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2024 · $603k · revenue -14%
- VCVENTURE CAFE ST LOUIS3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue -99%
- VFVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC2× · 2019–2020 · $14k · revenue -59%
Funded once
- TMTHE MAGIC HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +25%
- COCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -46%
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.
Drive national health security and economic growth through u.s.-based production of medicines so that every patient, health care system and pharmacy retailer has access to critical medicines.
Economic development.
Founded in 2002, cortex mission is the creation of the midwest's premier innovation hub of bioscience and technology research, development and commercialization, serving as the anchor of st. louis' growing ecosystem for innovative startup…
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…
To advance st. louis' regional prosperity by cultivating a thriving biosciences sector. biogenerator pursues this mission by producing for the region a robust pipeline of successful bioscience companies and entrepreneurs.
The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
Tranform chicago into a tier one technology and innovation hub and promote inclusive economic growth.
The organization is dedicated to advancing information technology industry growth through its educational programs, market research, networking events, professional certifications, and public policy advocacy.
To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.
Accelerating the springfield, mo cyber economy and positioning it as a state hub of cyber innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater St Louis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Npower Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
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 PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PROPEL KITCHENS ↗
- Who funds CyberUp ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds TECHSTL ↗
- Who funds VENTURE CAFE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL INSTITUTE ON INNOVATION DISTRICTS INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PARK CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
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 · Regional Business Council · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Washington University · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Cortex 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.