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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
45
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$2.2MHealth$1.5MArts & Culture$1.3MAnimals$510kHuman Services$470kYouth Development$263kRecreation & Sports$250kPublic Safety & Disaster$180kOther$0
02FY2023 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $675k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY$30,000
ST LOUIS CHAPTER OF RED CROSS$30,000
ST PHILLIPS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$30,000
MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR$30,000
AVON OLD FARMS$25,000
EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL$25,000
MICDS$25,000
KIPP ST LOUIS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $35k → 11%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $15k → 12%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $10k → 12%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $35k → 11%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $10k → 12%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $10k → 12%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $35k → 11%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $10k → 12%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $10k → 12%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $30k → 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $30k → 11%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $30k → 11%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $15k → 21%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $30k → 11%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 21%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 21%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 21%PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $15k → 11%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 21%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5k → 21%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $5k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
UT
MO
MD
TN
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 60 repeat orgs$397k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
13

Total granted

$7.2M
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+68%

Still filing today

58%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School
    7× · 2017–2023 · $606k · revenue +86%
  • MN
    MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $405k · revenue +12%
  • CA
    CITY ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $330k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • NM
    NORTHERN MICHIGAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • SN
    SECOND NATURE ALUMNI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Furman University

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.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
8
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
9
Mount Mary University Inc

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…

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10
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
11
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
12
Webster University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
39/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PHILLIPS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $670,000 · OtherST PHILLIPS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $326,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $230,000 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALST LOUIS CHAPTER OF RED CROSS: $180,000 · OtherAVON OLD FARMS: $135,000 · OtherMIAMI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $135,000 · OtherMISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY: $130,000 · OtherCENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $125,000 · OtherFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $160,000 · Other+33 more: $1,428,500 · Other+33 moreMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $605,500 · EducationMary Institute and S…CITY ACADEMY INC: $330,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCLANDON SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationLANDON SCHOOLALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $135,000 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATI…NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $105,000 · Education+5 moreCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $562,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CRE…SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $115,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS S…HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureHARBOR SPRING…DANCE MOVES STL: $60,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE MOVES S…MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THE…+3 more: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $405,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORT…CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $256,000 · HealthCHILD CENTER…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $40,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $37,500 · Health+3 more: $20,000 · HealthMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $225,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $65,000 · Human ServicesGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $65,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $15,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $210,000 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · AnimalsMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · AnimalsDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $15,000 · AnimalsLIFELINE HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $15,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsForest Park Forever Inc: $90,000 · EnvironmentLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $70,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $35,000 · EnvironmentMissouri Prairie Foundation: $10,000 · Environment
Other$3,520,000Education$1,385,500Arts & Culture$932,500Health$808,500Human Services$370,000Animals$360,000Environment$205,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $605,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $562,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $405,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $330,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $256,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $225,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetLITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $210,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetLANDON SCHOOL: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $115,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB: $87,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNO MORE TEARS INC: $70,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $65,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $65,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDANCE MOVES STL: $60,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASA VALENTINA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPROJECT CU INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILSON SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREADY READERS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP DUDLEY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY: $15,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLIFELINE HORSE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissouri Prairie Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDOLPHIN LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS ↗
  • Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds DANCE MOVES STL ↗
  • Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO33.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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