· Private foundation
East Missouri Foundation
TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS RECOGNIZED AS EXEMPT UNDER SECTION 501(C)(3), WITH A FOCUS ON THOSE CHARITIES THAT ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, HEALTH CARE, FOOD AND TRANSPORTATION FOR SENIORS, PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, LOW INCOME PERSONS, SINGLE PARENTS, CHILDREN OR THE HOMELESS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $496k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EYE THRIVE | $25,000 |
| FOOD OUTREACH | $20,000 |
| LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $20,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $20,000 |
| ASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP | $20,000 |
| FEED MY PEOPLE | $20,000 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF STL | $15,000 |
| NORTHSIDE YOUTH & SENIOR SERVICE CENTER | $15,000 |
| THE COVERING HOUSE | $15,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $15,000 |
| ARNOLD FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| ST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
63 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- ETEYE THRIVE5× · 2020–2024 · $111k · revenue +136%
- LSLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +43%
- WHWesley House Association5× · 2020–2024 · $93k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- WHWESLEY HOUSEone grant, 2017 · $50k
- NYNORTHSIDE YOUTH & SENIOR SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $50k
- LBLESSIE BATES DAVIS HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $50k
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 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…
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
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…
We walk with people facing homelessness on their journey to lifelong stability.
To serve st. louis' most vulnerable senior women, nourishing their social, physical and emotional needs, and enhancing their quality of life through compassionate care.
To provide supportive housing and child development services to help homeless citizens of the city of st. louis, missouri exit the condition of homelessness and regain independence in the community
High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
A sanctuary for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance use disorders.
To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.
A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Community Council of St Charles County. 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 44 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.
63 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. 63 of the 116 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 EYE THRIVE ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Wesley House Association ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds ARNOLD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Room at the Inn ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Provident 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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jefferson Foundation · Tsf · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Youthbridge Community 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 East Missouri Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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