· Private foundation
Esse Health 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH | $5,000 |
| MIDTOWN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| COLLEGE BOUND | $2,500 |
| MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS | $2,500 |
| ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT | $2,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| EVERTRUE | $2,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +4%
- LALOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS7× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +226%
- MCMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS7× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +94%
- CDCASA DE SALUDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +41%
- GCGREAT CIRCLEone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -99%
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.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Children's Cancer Society and the most unlike its peers is Troy Dream Center 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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 38 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 BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION IS REAL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds VOYCE ↗
- Who funds TROY DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT ↗
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 · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · Pott Foundation · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Tsf · Jefferson 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Esse Health 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.