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Edward Jones Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k124 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $670k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+13 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $3,713,777 |
| GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION | $1,845,491 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $1,500,000 |
| BI-STATE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY | $1,000,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $550,000 |
| VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY | $536,097 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PEDAL THE CAUSE | $334,834 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC | $310,000 |
| WEBSTER UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK | $250,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $225,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $210,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
143 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2022, 58 since wound down; 115 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS5× · 2018–2022 · $2.1M · revenue +126%
- PTPEDAL THE CAUSE6× · 2017–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +75%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- UCUS Chamber of Commerce Foundationone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -27%
- UCUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2017 · $350k
- CICATALYST INCone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -30%
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Economic development.
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covington-Conyers Cycling Club 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
348 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. 348 of the 410 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds STAGES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds CATALYST 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 · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · 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 Edward Jones 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.
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% 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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