Missouri · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 85%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $755k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 85% of the organizations First Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k 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 | 54 | $427k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $361k | 85% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $23k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $409k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marian Middle School | $128,455 | 5 | 1% |
| Kipp St Louis | $94,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Oasis Companies International | $77,500 | 2 | 23% |
| City Academy Inc | $68,965 | 3 | 1% |
| St Louis Public Schools Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Girls Incorporated of St Louis | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sherwood Forest Camp Inc | $49,150 | 2 | 1% |
| Loyola Academy of St Louis | $40,395 | 2 | 2% |
| Tabernacle Community Development Corporation | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rebuilding Together Solano County Inc | $38,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Bank Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · 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
How this is measured
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About First Bank Foundation
- How much does First Bank Foundation give?
- First Bank Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $442,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does First Bank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Youth Development (26%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are First Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Marian Middle School ($128k), Kipp St Louis ($94k), Oasis Companies International ($78k).
- Does First Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Bank 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 First Bank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.
- Where is First Bank Foundation based?
- First Bank Foundation is based in MO.
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