Missouri · Private foundation
David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $593k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $424,159
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 20
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $565k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $528k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $531k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $363k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $213k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $235,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Washington University | $181,384 | 3 | 0% |
| St Louis Art Museum Foundation | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Americans for Oxford Inc | $145,000 | 3 | 0% |
| John Burroughs School | $138,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Municipality of Princeton | $80,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Archdiocese of St Louis | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $24,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($955k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Centene Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Ronald K & Jan C Greenberg Family Fdtn · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Edward Jones Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
Compare David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation with peer funders
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About David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation
- How much does David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation give?
- David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $592,659 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 20 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Arts & Culture (12%), Environment (11%).
- Who are David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($235k), Washington University ($181k), St Louis Art Museum Foundation ($145k).
- Does David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee, Centene Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation based?
- David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation is based in MO.
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