· Private foundation
David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $250k+1 grant · $424k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $424,159 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $27,500 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS | $10,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| MILDRED KEMPER LANE ART MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| Nine Network of Public Media | $7,500 |
| CHANDLER SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| PRINCETON | $5,000 |
| POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| Congregation Temple Israel | $5,000 |
| United Way of Greater St Louis | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of David and Dorothy Kemper Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES5× · 2021–2025 · $235k · revenue +28%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2024 · $181k · revenue +21%- SLST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HLHAPPY LUNGS PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
- WBWinchester Basketball Association Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -27%
- INILLINOIS NATIVE PLANT SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -14% · 26% of their budget
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 central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 59 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 38 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 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHANDLER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HAPPY LUNGS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Winchester Basketball Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FORSYTH SCHOOL 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: 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
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 David and Dorothy Kemper Family 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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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