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Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char at a glance

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Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$380k
Granted FY2021
28
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.5MArts & Culture$70kEducation$68kYouth Development$65kHuman Services$65kRecreation & Sports$33kEnvironment$26kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2021 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k7 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $349k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Salvation Army$40,000
Aim High-St. Louis$35,000
University of Minnesota Foundation$25,000
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra$25,000
LightHouse for the Blind$20,000
St. Louis Chamber Chorus$20,000
St. Louis Art Museum Foundation$20,000
Forest Releaf of Missouri$16,000
Boy Scouts of America - St. Louis Area Council$15,000
Soulard School Inc.$15,000
Gateway Region Young Mens Christian Association$15,000
Forest Park Forever Inc.$13,000
Gateway Arch Park Foundation$10,000
Girl Scouts Of Eastern Missouri Inc$10,000
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $405k → 11%SEE ATTACHED: $380k → 11%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $365k → 11%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $345k → 11%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $325k → 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.
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 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
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
St Louis Science Center Foundation

Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Science & Tech
4
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
5
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
6
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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7
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
8
The St Louis Children's Choirs

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…

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9
Siue Charter School

The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
12
Concordia University Chicago

Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gateway Arch Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Michael D and Margaret Ann Latta Charitable Foundation. 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

26 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. 26 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $40,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAIM HIGH ST LOUIS: $35,000 · OtherAIM HIGH ST LOUISTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 · OtherTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLINDSAINT LOUIS CHAMBER CHORUS: $20,000 · OtherSAINT LOUIS CHAMBER CHORUSBoy Scouts of America - St. Louis Area Council: $15,000 · OtherBoy Scouts of America - St. Louis Area CouncilEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · OtherEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INCThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $10,000 · OtherThe Tower Grove Park FoundationGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $10,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC+1 more: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA…THE SOULARD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationTHE SOULARD SCHOOLRanken Technical College: $10,000 · EducationRanken Technical Colleg…CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $10,000 · EducationCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR T…JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOLHOME WORKS - THVP: $5,000 · EducationHOME WORKS - THVPCITY ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $3,000 · EducationSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SY…ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS ART M…CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREA…FOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI: $16,000 · EnvironmentFOREST RELE…Forest Park Forever Inc: $13,000 · EnvironmentForest Park…MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $10,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BO…GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WYMAN CENTER: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Animals
Other$173,000Education$78,000Arts & Culture$50,000Environment$39,000Human Services$15,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Animals$10,000

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 budgetAIM HIGH ST LOUIS: $35,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT LOUIS CHAMBER CHORUS: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI: $16,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOULARD SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRanken Technical College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

United Way of Greater…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…Norman J Stupp Founda…Edward Jones Foundati…Centene FoundationEmployees Community F…St Louis Community Fo…Berges Family Foundat…Pershing Charitable T…Pott Foundation
United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Berges Family Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Pott 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 Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char 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 28 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 $365k 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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