· Private foundation
Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $675k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANDON SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS | $122,500 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN | $65,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| MARYGROVE | $33,000 |
| ST PHILLIPS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR | $30,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHAPTER OF RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| MICDS | $25,000 |
| AVON OLD FARMS | $25,000 |
| EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| KIPP ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $370k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
60 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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
- MIMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School7× · 2017–2023 · $606k · revenue +86%
- MNMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN7× · 2017–2023 · $405k · revenue +6%
- CACITY ACADEMY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- NMNORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF ST LOUISone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SNSECOND NATURE ALUMNI FOUNDATIONone 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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
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 International Medical Assistance Foundation 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 38 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.
50 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. 50 of the 82 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 Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NO MORE TEARS INC ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE MOVES STL ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Hermann Family Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · August a Busch III Charitable Trust · The Bellwether 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 Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum — 0% of income from government
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% 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.