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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.

$20M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6,618
Grants FY2024still arriving
51
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Philanthropy$14MCommunity Improvement$6.9MEducation$3.9MHealth$3.3MArts & Culture$2.7MHuman Services$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.8MAnimals$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 6618 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6532 grants · $3.2M
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $761k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+15 grants · $14M
$300
Median grant
51
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HEARTLAND FORWARD INC$250,000
FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC$250,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 8%GOTHENBURG EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING COALITION: $3k → 12%LOVE INC - HEARTLAND: $3k → 5%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER OF NORTHFIELD INC: $3k → 11%GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 9%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $3k → 7%PARKER COUNTY CENTER OF HOPE INC: $5k → 8%HANDS AND FEET INC: $3k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $3k → 9%CARE TO LEARN: $3k → 15%LIBERTY HOUSE: $3k → 14%SIRENS PROJECT INC: $5k → 6%CHASE THE VICTORY: $10k → 13%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%CHASE THE VICTORY: $3k → 13%AVERYS LIGHT: $5k → 9%SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $25k → 14%CENTER THAT CARES: $5k → 11%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $10k → 16%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $5k → 7%YOUTH IN NEED: $3k → 5%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC: $5k → 13%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $6k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $3k → 9%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $5k → 15%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN INC: $20k → 14%METROCREST SERVICES: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $175k → 14%PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $550k → 21%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $300k → 21%BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $50k → 21%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $12k → 11%BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $50k → 21%ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOC: $5k → 11%ST ANDREWS RESOURCES FOR SENIORS: $8k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $1.3M → 21%GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 21%FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $40k → 21%FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $33k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $350k → 11%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS: $5k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $24k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $21k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $18k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $6k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 1204 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

1204 repeat relationships: 1204 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 615 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1204
121

Total granted

$30M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+12%

Still filing today

81%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GF
    Goalsetter Foundation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +221% · 84% of their budget
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +5%
  • SB
    SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +27% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • CG
    CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition
4
Western Carolina Rescue

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
5
Petconnect Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
6
Animal Care Sanctuary

The humane compassionate treatment of all animals.

Animals
7
United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy
8
Humane Society of Central Oregon

Strengthening the human-animal bond by advocating and compassionately caring for animals.

Animals
9
The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals
10
United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc

Uwgn unites the community and mobilizes resources so that every child, individual & family thrives

Philanthropy
11
Humane Society of Scott County

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…

Animals
12
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and

Create opportunities for people with barriers through training, employment, and supportive services

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zebra Youth Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

1647 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1647 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
182
Early backer (in before they grew)
1629/1647
Grantees still filing
995/1647
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $7,878,168 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS I…Goalsetter Foundation Inc: $1,700,000 · PhilanthropyGoalsetter Foundation IncVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $1,195,476 · PhilanthropyVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY+8 more: $236,781 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,150,000 · OtherST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORA…SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $1,250,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $1,250,000 · OtherTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK: $1,000,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARKCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $750,000 · OtherCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONIFF: $500,000 · OtherDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $530,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $505,245 · Other+106 more: $5,324,569 · Other+106 moreGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $3,676,789 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIVERS GREE…SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $1,050,000 · Community ImprovementSMALL BUSINESS EM…NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND: $350,000 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD SOLI…FINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementHeartland Forward Inc: $250,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $235,022 · Community ImprovementGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,303,774 · Human ServicesGATEWAY R…PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $850,425 · Human ServicesPROSPERIT…PEDAL THE CAUSE: $391,835 · Human ServicesPEDAL THE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $280,377 · Human ServicesAmerican …+19 more: $384,712 · Human Services+19 moreSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,150,350 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $300,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $175,950 · Arts & CultureTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $101,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $101,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $165,900 · Arts & CultureINCLUSIV INC: $1,800,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $10,100 · Public BenefitALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $351,765 · HealthMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $200,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $40,441 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $37,393 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $36,040 · Health+20 more: $253,565 · Health
Philanthropy$11,010,425Other$13,259,814Community Improvement$5,811,811Human Services$3,211,123Arts & Culture$2,194,200Public Benefit$1,810,100Health$919,204

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $7,878,168 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $3,676,789 over 2y, 40% of budgetINCLUSIV INC: $1,800,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGoalsetter Foundation Inc: $1,700,000 over 2y, 84% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,303,774 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $1,250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $1,195,476 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1,150,350 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $1,050,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetPROSPERITY CONNECTION: $850,425 over 2y, 33% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $530,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $505,245 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE: $391,835 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEDWARD JONES DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $386,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $351,765 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND: $350,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $335,932 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $300,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $280,377 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $262,537 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $252,275 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $250,218 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINANCIAL HEALTH NETWORK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHeartland Forward Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $201,110 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $200,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $200,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $180,954 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $175,950 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $175,560 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $150,425 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFOCUS ST LOUIS: $150,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $119,791 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $103,753 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $101,520 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $101,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $100,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE IGNITES: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $75,452 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND: $62,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSEED ST LOUIS: $50,200 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetMISSOURI STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $50,025 over 1y, 21% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Edward Jones Foundati…Norman J Stupp Founda…Brown Dana Charitable…Pott FoundationTsfThe Bellwether Founda…Trio Foundation of St…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Moneta Group Charitab…Berges Family Foundat…St Louis Community Fo…East Missouri Foundat…
Edward Jones FoundationMO54.1× affinity134 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edward Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Edward Jones Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward Jones Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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