· Private foundation
David B Lichtenstein Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $400,000 |
| CCUA | $125,000 |
| VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $70,000 |
| WOODHAVEN | $50,000 |
| BAPTIST STUDENT UNION | $10,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| RANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC HOSP | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| WHITE CROSS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $5,000 |
| PINK RIBBON GOOD | $2,000 |
| SOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $224k 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
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS8× · 2017–2024 · $273k · revenue +95%
- OLOUR LADYS INN2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +45%
- HSHOME SWEET HOME4× · 2019–2024 · $26k · revenue +219%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- DRDISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -1%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITYone grant, 2018 · $15k
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 serve st. louis' most vulnerable senior women, nourishing their social, physical and emotional needs, and enhancing their quality of life through compassionate care.
A sanctuary for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance use disorders.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide outpatient and residential rehabilitative services to individuals and families referred by various government agencies. these individuals include substance abusers, intellectually disabled, developmentally disabled, and abused…
Provide services in response to individual need
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
Pregnancy counseling
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My People and the most unlike its peers is City of Columbia New Century Fund Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 66 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 MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CITY OF COLUMBIA NEW CENTURY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH THROUGH FIRE INC ↗
- Who funds School of Service Access Arts ↗
- Who funds SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Live 2 Give Hope ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE 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: Veterans United Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc · East Missouri Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust
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 B Lichtenstein 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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