· Private foundation
Emerson Directorsofficers' Charitable
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $692,388 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $749,338 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,950 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Opera Theatre of St. Louis | $250,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities | $125,000 |
| Today and Tomorrow Educational Fdn | $50,000 |
| St. Louis Area Foodbank | $50,000 |
| Today and Tomorrow Educational FDN | $50,000 |
| Great St. Louis Area Council BSA | $25,000 |
| Siteman Cancer Center | $25,000 |
| United Way of Greater St. Louis | $14,000 |
| United Way of Greater St. Louis | $12,000 |
| Saint Louis Abbey and Priory School | $10,000 |
| Pentecostal Church of our Lord Jesus Christ | $10,000 |
| VP Community Impact Foundation | $10,000 |
| Fishtown Preservation Society | $7,577 |
| American Corporate Partners | $7,500 |
| Jewish Community Center | $5,000 |
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.
31 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $677k 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
- SLST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2× · 2020–2021 · $397k
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST. LOUIS2× · 2020–2021 · $68k
- FUFORDHAM UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $25k
Funded once
- CPCHECK PAYMENT TO SCHWAB CHARITABLE FBO DELLAQUILA CHARITABLE FD #3455-5822one grant, 2023 · $705k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST. LOUISone grant, 2021 · $502k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST. LOUISone grant, 2021 · $250k
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.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
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…
Economic development.
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).
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
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.
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…
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
Provide professional medical services in a variety of medical specialties and disciplines in accordance with the corporation's charitable mission: strengthen and broaden the range of skills and patient populations available for physicians…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Vp Community Impact Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 203 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.
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 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Centene Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Finerty Family Foundation · Interco Charitable Trust · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable 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.