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Edward Jones Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6532 grants · $3.2M
- $10k–50k45 grants · $761k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+15 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $3,316,912 |
| GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION | $1,833,330 |
| INCLUSIV INC | $1,800,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS | $1,250,000 |
| GOALSETTER FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER | $850,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $650,000 |
| VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY | $605,515 |
| SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $600,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND | $350,000 |
| PROSPERITY CONNECTION | $300,000 |
| FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC | $250,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| HEARTLAND FORWARD INC | $250,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
1203 repeat relationships — 1203 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 614 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M 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
- GFGoalsetter Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +221% · 84% of their budget
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +5%
- SBSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- TSTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISone grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
- SLST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARKone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- CGCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +3%
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 improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Petconnect rescue is a foster-based animal welfare organization dedicated to saving at-risk dogs and cats, providing them with high quality care, and adopting them to loving homes. we are committed to ensuring a highly positive rescue…
The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.
United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.
Strengthening the human-animal bond by advocating and compassionately caring for animals.
Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.
Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives
The humane society of scott county provides humane care and treatment for all the animals entrusted to us. we provide and promote animal adoptions, rabies/microchip clinics, volunteer opportunities, education programs, and are contracted…
Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters. 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 25 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
1646 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. 1646 of the 2,000 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 GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIV INC ↗
- Who funds Goalsetter Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds EDWARD JONES DISASTER RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds The Tower Grove Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS 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: Edward Jones Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Pott Foundation · Tsf · The Bellwether Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · East Missouri 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.
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pensacola Little Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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