· Private foundation
Flying Cloud Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS | $33,084 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $10,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| MISSION REALTY ADVISORS | $7,500 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARCH GRANT GALA NEXUS | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY | $4,400 |
| MONARCH IMMIGRATION SERVICES | $4,000 |
| FOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FDN | $3,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NEW LINE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| REPERATORY THEATRE | $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 (FY23–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- OAOPERA AMERICA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +23%
- LALOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- EEE E TOURS - THRIVEone grant, 2023 · $8k
- OTOPERA THEATREone grant, 2023 · $7k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
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.
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Support and advocate the growth of the arts and culture in the st. louis region through the programming and outreach efforts of a classical music station broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Manage and administer the endowment investment assets of the st louis symphony orchestra and to provide it with periodic distributions to support its operations.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…
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,…
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
Cinema st. louis engages the st. louis region through educational programs, cultural connectivity, and curated film exhibitions.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is New Line Theatre 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.
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 27 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% 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.
25 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. 25 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 Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION REALTY ADVISORS ↗
- Who funds FOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER ↗
- Who funds Monarch Immigrant Services ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds PIANOS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS BUILDING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PLANETARY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW LINE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL ↗
- Who funds METRO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOWARD A LATTA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER ARTS ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Tower Grove Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS CHAMBER CHORUS ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Pershing Charitable Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Graybar Foundation · The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Berges Family 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 Flying Cloud Charitable 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.