Missouri · Private foundation
Engelhardt Family 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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $520,325
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Engelhardt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $1.1M | 48% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $537k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $635k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $816k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $602k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $477k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sheldon Arts Foundation | $982,379 | 6 | 7% |
| Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | $403,914 | 4 | 2% |
| The National Children's Cancer Society | $323,579 | 6 | 1% |
| Washington University | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Louis Arc Inc | $191,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Illinois Rural Heritage Museum Inc | $108,283 | 4 | n/a |
| John Burroughs School | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $36,851 | 4 | n/a |
| Abc to Ceo Ltd | $30,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Foundation for Pinckneyville | $19,750 | 1 | 78% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Engelhardt Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electric
How this is measured
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About Engelhardt Family Foundation
- How much does Engelhardt Family Foundation give?
- Engelhardt Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $1,053,872 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Engelhardt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (37%), Health (14%).
- Who are Engelhardt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Sheldon Arts Foundation ($982k), Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ($404k), The National Children's Cancer Society ($324k).
- Does Engelhardt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Engelhardt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Engelhardt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Edward Jones Foundation, World Wide Technology Foundation.
- Where is Engelhardt Family Foundation based?
- Engelhardt Family Foundation is based in MO.
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