· Private foundation
Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUNDS | $26,350 |
| CHILDRENS ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDAT | $26,350 |
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 (FY17–21, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 75% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 36 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MMMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $76k · revenue +50%
- LALOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS6× · 2017–2022 · $72k · revenue +226%
- BUBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $70k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TATODAY AND TOMORROW K-4one grant, 2020 · $25k
- TATODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCT'L FDTIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TATODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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…
The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.
La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
The mission of st. louis voices academy of media arts is to leverage media arts and storytelling to equip students with the agency to excel academically, author their own futures, and make meaningful contributions in their communities.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Teachers, parents, and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful college prep curriculum. students do not question "whether" they will go to college but, instead, ask…
Momentum academy is an open enrollment public charter school. momentum academy pursues academic excellence in a safe, supportive and loving learning environment.
An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Characterplus and the most unlike its peers is Northland College. 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 60 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 NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOME WORKS - THVP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE BIOME SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Berges Family Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Centene 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 Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn 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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