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Flying Cloud Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$102k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$108kPhilanthropy$35kHousing & Shelter$21kEducation$17kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$8kCommunity Improvement$8kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS$33,084
OPERA AMERICA$10,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER$10,000
MISSION REALTY ADVISORS$7,500
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
ARCH GRANT GALA NEXUS$5,000
LOYOLA ACADEMY$5,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER$5,000
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY$4,400
MONARCH IMMIGRATION SERVICES$4,000
FOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FDN$3,000
HOME SWEET HOME$2,500
READY READERS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PIANOS FOR PEOPLE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOME SWEET HOME: $3k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $500 → 11%MONARCH IMMIGRATION SERVICES: $4k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$174k · 14 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$174k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OT
    Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
    2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +194%
  • OA
    OPERA AMERICA INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • LA
    LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • EE
    E E TOURS - THRIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • OT
    OPERA THEATRE
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Louis Shakespeare Festival

Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.

Arts & Culture
2
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Jazz St Louis

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Radio Arts Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust

Manage and administer the endowment investment assets of the st louis symphony orchestra and to provide it with periodic distributions to support its operations.

Arts & Culture
6
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Florentine Opera Company Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

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,…

Animals
9
Lyric Opera of Chicago

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Cinema St Louis

Cinema st. louis engages the st. louis region through educational programs, cultural connectivity, and curated film exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
11
Sarasota Opera Association Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
San Diego Opera Association

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: $53,084 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of Saint LouisOPERA AMERICA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA AMERICA INCSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,750 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA+5 more: $6,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONREBUILDING TOGETHER: $13,000 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHERE E TOURS - THRIVE: $8,000 · OtherE E TOURS - THRIVEARCH GRANT GALA NEXUS: $7,500 · OtherARCH GRANT GALA NEXUSOPERA THEATRE: $7,163 · OtherOPERA THEATREIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherMonarch Immigrant Services: $4,000 · Other+13 more: $13,437 · Other+13 moreLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $10,000 · EducationREADY READERS: $3,000 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalPROJECT PEANUT BUTTER: $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalForest Park Forever Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · PhilanthropyWELCOME NEIGHBOR STL: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWEBSTER ARTS: $500 · PhilanthropyMISSION REALTY ADVISORS: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$85,334Other$92,100Education$13,000International$11,000Environment$10,000Philanthropy$8,000Community Improvement$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $53,084 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION REALTY ADVISORS: $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PEANUT BUTTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonarch Immigrant Services: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADY READERS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIANOS FOR PEOPLE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW LINE THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETRO THEATER COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME NEIGHBOR STL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOWARD A LATTA SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEBSTER ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LOUIS CHAMBER CHORUS: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…Regional Cultural and…Pershing Charitable T…Edward Jones Foundati…Moneta Group Charitab…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Graybar FoundationThe Greater St Louis …The Crawford Taylor F…Berges Family Foundat…
St Louis Community FoundationMO21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Flying Cloud Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Flying Cloud Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    6report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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