· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC HOSP | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $5,000 |
| WHITE CROSS FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| PINK RIBBON GOOD | $2,000 |
| SCHOOL OF SERVICE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +395%
Funded once
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- DRDISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -1%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 BAPTIST STUDENT UNION ↗
- 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 THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SERVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Live 2 Give Hope ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David B Lichtenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David B Lichtenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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