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First Bank 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.

$442k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$589kYouth Development$333kPhilanthropy$64kHousing & Shelter$63kHuman Services$54kCommunity Improvement$43kHealth$38kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $277k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$755k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Girls Incorporated of St Louis$25,000
Believe Schools$25,000
Sherwood Forest Camp Inc$24,150
KIPP St Louis$20,000
Tabernacle Community Development Corporation$20,000
Marion Middle School$19,205
Orangewood Foundation$18,000
Youthbridge Community Foundation$15,500
City Academy$15,000
Junior achievement of Greater St Louis$14,000
Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles$11,500
Exceptional Children's Foundation$10,000
Waymakers$10,000
St Louis Shakespeare Festival$10,000
Samueli Academy$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Exceptional Children's Foundation: $10k → 14%Exceptional Children's Foundation: $10k → 14%Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan L: $10k → 14%Youthbridge Community Foundation: $16k → 11%Youthbridge Community Foundation: $14k → 11%Parentis Foundation: $10k → 10%Parentis Foundation: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$908k · 30 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$908k
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

90%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • KS
    KIPP ST LOUIS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +58%
  • OC
    OASIS COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +111%
  • CA
    CITY ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $69k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER SOLANO COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $38k · revenue +287%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -16%
  • UC
    University City Public Schools Education Found Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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2
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
5
Legacy La Youth Development Corp

To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…

Crime & Legal
6
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
7
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
8
Kidworks Community Development Corp

Kidworks inspires purpose in youth, fuels their growth, and catalyzes their impact in the community and the world.

Human Services
9
Youthbuild Charter School of California

Our mission is to cultivate collaborative learning communities in which every student has the right to an authentic education, plays a meaningful role in creating a positive social change, and becomes and active participant in working…

Education
10
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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11
Kipp Chicago Schools

The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…

Education
12
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Harris-Stowe Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEarly Childhood Care CentersLabor Union LocalsAffordable Housing OperatorsUniversity Support Foundati…Performing Arts Organizatio…Asian-American Professional…Public Charter Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
15%
11,410/75,211

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
21/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $128,455 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOLCITY ACADEMY INC — $68,965 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $40,395 · EducationLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUISFRIENDS OF JENNINGS DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF JENNINGS DISTRICT FOUND…BELIEVE SCHOOLS — $25,000 · EducationBELIEVE SCHOOLSMaryville University - St Louis — $23,100 · EducationMaryville University - St LouisSAMUELI ACADEMY — $20,000 · EducationProject Hope Alliance — $15,000 · EducationREADY READERS — $15,000 · Education+4 more — $25,000 · Education+4 moreKIPP ST LOUIS — $94,000 · OtherKIPP ST LOUISUniversity City Public Schools Education Found Inc — $35,000 · OtherUniversity City Public Schools Edu…OLIVE CREST — $15,000 · OtherTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 · OtherTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C…REBUILDING TOGETHER SOLANO COUNTY INC — $38,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER SOLANO COUNTY …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $14,000 · Other+29 more — $157,115 · Other+29 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORAT…SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $49,150 · Youth DevelopmentSHERWOOD FOREST …BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG…GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF GRE…STL YOUTH JOBS — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentSTL YOUTH JOBSBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG…TEAM KIDS INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEAM KIDS INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY — $6,500 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentOASIS COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL — $77,500 · Arts & CultureOASIS COM…ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS …CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $750 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $35,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $29,000 · Human ServicesEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Human ServicesPARENTIS FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $28,000 · Crime & LegalWAYMAKERS — $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$390,915Other$393,115Youth Development$187,150Arts & Culture$102,750Philanthropy$95,000Human Services$76,500Crime & Legal$48,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $128,455 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS — $94,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOASIS COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL — $77,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC — $68,965 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $49,150 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $40,395 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JENNINGS DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION — $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELIEVE SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis — $23,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUELI ACADEMY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAYMAKERS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $19,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARENTIS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetProject Hope Alliance — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADY READERS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTL YOUTH JOBS — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VENTURA COUNTY INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTEAM KIDS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMINO NUEVO CHARTER ACADEMY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURN THE PAGE STL — $7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GUIDANCE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIOCOM INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcKinley Children's Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…Youthbridge Community…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Pott FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Centene FoundationMufg Union Bank Found…Pershing Charitable T…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO36.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Centene Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Pershing Charitable Trust

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 First Bank 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to First Bank Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to First Bank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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