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Frank S & Antoinette G Leta Family Charitable Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of FRANK S & ANTOINETTE G LETA FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| EPWORTH CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $26,595 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $13,516 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST LOUIS | $7,964 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CARITAS CONNECTIONS | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC CHURCH ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $3,000 |
| HOLY INFANT ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $3,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $3,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $3,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $3,000 |
| MICHAEL BROWN SR CHOSEN FOR CHANGE FUND | $2,500 |
| ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $1,500 |
| THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Frank S & Antoinette G Leta Family Charitable Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $169k · revenue +59%- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC7× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +4%
- SPST PATRICK CENTER4× · 2017–2021 · $67k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SLSAINT LOUIS SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $74k
- DODefenders of the Unbornone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -34%
- WBWORLD BIRD SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +28%
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 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 transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
St. louis help is dedicated to providing community members with donated medical equipment, promoting independence, health and environmental responsibility.
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
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,…
The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…
Saint louis christian college prepares biblical servant leaders for urban, suburban, rural, and global ministry.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ray & Diana Mungenast Family Foundation. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 96 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds Caritas Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds Defenders of the Unborn ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AUTO DEALERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF ST CHARLES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Brace for Impact 46 Inc ↗
- Who funds Jason Motte Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Miracles N Progress Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DIVINE NEST ↗
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 · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Bellwether Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · St Louis Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 Frank S & Antoinette G Leta Family Charitable Foundation Trust 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.