· Private foundation
Em Burger Memorial Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA R1 HIGH SCHOOL | $48,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MO - MEAT LAB | $22,700 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FINKE | $14,000 |
| CHILDCARE VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| MU HEALTHCARE - CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HEART OF MO UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| HENRY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM | $5,000 |
| PARIS SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| CALIFORNIA RURAL FIRE DEPT | $2,500 |
| MISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| MONITEAU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| GATEWAY INDUSTRIES | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCALIFORNIA PROGRESS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +40% · 59% of their budget
- MCMoniteau County Nutrition Center7× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +45% · 57% of their budget
- MFMISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MOone grant, 2017 · $29k
- MCMCGIRK COMMUNITY BUILDING ASSNone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HCHOPE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
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.
Southern Illinois Hospital Services (SIHS) is dedicated to promoting the health and well being of all of the people in the communities we serve. Our mission is guided by our values: compassion, collaboration, quality, stewardship,…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Saint francis medical center is a 306 bed facility serving more than 715,000 people throughout missouri, illinois, kentucky, tennessee, and arkansas. the medical center provides comprehensive inpatient acute care services for medical and…
Our mission is to enrich lives and strengthen communities by connecting missourians to the people, places, and ideas that shape our society.
The Missouri Dental Association Foundation (the Foundation) is a not-for-profit organization committed to improving and promoting dental health within the State of Missouri. The Foundation deals in the production and distribution of dental…
Baptist memorial hospital-desoto, inc. provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, or age. its mission is to serve the community with respect to providing health care services and health…
To provide supportive services to veterans of missouri.
Saving lives by honoring the gift of organ and tissue donation with dignity and compassion.
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 125 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Mfa Oil Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Em Burger Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Em Burger Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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