· Private foundation
Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $4,000 |
| GREENWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH | $3,000 |
| HEALTH PROTECTION & EDUCATION SERVICES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS OF ST LOUIS | $2,000 |
| HAVEN OF GRACE | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE | $2,000 |
| PLACES FOR PEOPLE INC | $1,500 |
| SUNSHINE MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| VILLA DUCHESNEOAK HILL SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| CATHOLIC URBAN PROGRAMS | $1,000 |
| LOGOS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL ROBT PAINE HEART INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| NORTH SIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LADUE CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% 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.
133 repeat relationships — 121 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- THTHE HAVEN OF GRACE6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +62%
- SMSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +18%
- PFPlaces for People Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UNUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $500
- GAGATEWAY AREA MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · $500
- YLYOUNG LIFE CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Fisheries Conservation 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.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 140 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 HEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Places for People Incorporated ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
- Who funds myLIFEspeaks ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Evangelical Children's Home ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds TEAM ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Ladue Education Foundation ↗
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 Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Fischer-Bauer-Knirps 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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