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Edward & Thea Lawton Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| HIAS | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LUPUS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY | $3,000 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| NAMI OF MISSOURI | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MIRIAM SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| WOMEN'S VOICES RAISED FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
64 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TCTHE CROWN CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $158k · revenue +151%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +13%- NONAMI OF MISSOURI9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
- BDBISHOP DUBOURG HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Provide temporary care and shelter to children confronted with various life crises and to offer emergency support and community referrals to family members.
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
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.
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…
Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
The st. louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.
In the tradition of the sisters of st. joseph of carondelet and in partnership with benedictine, nazareth living center participates in the healing ministry of jesus ministering with compassion and responding creatively to the needs of…
The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…
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 Jewish Family Services of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. 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.
33 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. 33 of the 83 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 THE CROWN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S VOICES RAISED FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Millstone 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 Edward & Thea Lawton 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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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