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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $187k
- $250k+2 grants · $771k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - TRULASKE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $520,325 |
| SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION | $250,756 |
| ILLINOIS RURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| ST LOUIS ARC | $66,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY | $50,962 |
| JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL - ST LOUIS | $17,500 |
| LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ABC TO CEO | $10,000 |
| CASA OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $3,790 |
| GOOD & GLORY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $2,500 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PINCKNEYVILLE FIREMENS ASSOCIATION | $750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- TSTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $982k · revenue +43%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +16%- SLST LOUIS ARC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $191k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR PINCKNEYVILLEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +503% · 78% of their budget
- SISOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +105%
Best Buddies International Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +87%
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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,…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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.…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 24. 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.
32 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. 32 of the 64 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
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.
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ABC TO CEO LTD ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PINCKNEYVILLE ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST CHARLES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Williamson County Texas ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Southwest Florida Music Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC ↗
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: 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
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Engelhardt Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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