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Craftsmen Cares Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k77 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL | $19,196 |
| RANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC BRIDGE HOSPITAL | $3,596 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI | $2,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,237 |
| YOUTHHOPE | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER | $1,907 |
| COASTAL CARES FOUNDATION | $1,900 |
| BETHANY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $1,891 |
| BELLA EASE | $1,696 |
| GRACE CHURCH | $1,585 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,562 |
| LINCOLN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE | $1,500 |
| SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH CO CARSON FAMILY | $1,500 |
| KENNY ROGERS CHILDREN'S CENTER | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
66 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 44 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- YIYOUTH IN NEED7× · 2017–2023 · $13k · revenue +55%
- BFBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +65%
- SMSOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC6× · 2018–2024 · $11k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SHSSM HEALTH CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HTHOGAN TRUCK LEASING INCone grant, 2019 · $4k
- AEALLIANT ENERGY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to lead better lives by providing a lifetime of high-quality services, family support and advocacy.
The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and the most unlike its peers is Gateway Warrior Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHHOPE ↗
- Who funds KUTO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR ↗
- Who funds Caritas Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds KENNY ROGERS CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTERFLY HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds KNOCKOUT ALD ↗
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 · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Tsf · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable 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 Craftsmen Cares 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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