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Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found

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.

$310k
Granted FY2021
24
Itemized grants FY2021
24
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$271k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$22,000
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$3.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
77% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$79kArts & Culture$76kAnimals$52kEnvironment$35kYouth Development$12kHealth$9kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt George's School: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Louis Zoo Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetForest Releaf of Missouri: $13,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSt Louis Regional Public Media Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Burroughs School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park: $9,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRanken Technical College: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Institute for the Deaf: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Rescue Center: $8,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOpen Door Animal Sanctuary: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Scholarship Foundation of St Louis: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cat Shelter: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Repertory Theatre of St Louis: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDuo Dogs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Magic House: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Shakespeare Festival: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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 IncMO29.2× affinity12 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 · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc

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.

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About Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found

How much does Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found give?
Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found reported 24 itemized grants totaling $271,000, out of $310,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (4%), Arts & Culture (4%), Animals (3%).
Who are Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($22k), Webster University ($22k), Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ($22k).
Does Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation.
Where is Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found based?
Edward Chase Garvey Mem Found is based in MO.

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 24 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $257k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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