· Private foundation
Dismas House of St Louis
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $12,832 |
| CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS | $10,725 |
| EAST MISSOURI ACTION AGENCY INC TOTAL | $6,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $5,700 |
| NORTH PATROL POLICE & BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP | $5,274 |
| CRIME VICTIMS CENTER | $2,011 |
| FATHERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER | $1,513 |
| SEMO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $1,305 |
| HERBERT HOOVER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB TOTAL - CHANGED NAME TO BOYS AND GIRLS C | $700 |
| LINDELL CLUB 4522 CLUB | $612 |
| KENWAY CENTER TOTAL | $560 |
| FAMILY AND WORKPLACE CENTERS OF ASMERICA TOTAL | $300 |
| SHARED BLESSINGS MINISTRIES TOTAL | $170 |
| MISSION ST LOUIS TOTAL | $100 |
| ST FRANCIOUS COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP | $100 |
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 (FY21–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SLST LOUIS POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +13%
- PPPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $31k · revenue +162%
- CTCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- EWERISE WILLIAMS AND ASSOCIATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $57k · revenue +27%
- SOShrine of St Josephone grant, 2021 · $30k
- SMST MARTINS WILLING WORKERS MINISTRYone grant, 2022 · $26k
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.
Assistance to police officers and their families.
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Community Development and Community Center and social services
To improve lives by ending domestic violence.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
Provide social and fraternal activities and represent the interests of the supervisors and commanders of the st louis metropolitan police department.
Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Success and the most unlike its peers is North Patrol Police & Business Partnership. 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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
24 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. 24 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 ERISE WILLIAMS AND ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE TIME MINISTRIES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANCIS PARK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds DRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH PATROL POLICE & BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRENDENS FRIDAY BACK PACK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY FOSTER CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS ↗
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 · Edward Jones Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Regional Business Council · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Tsf · World Wide Technology Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Dennis M Jones Family 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 Dismas House of St Louis 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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