· Private foundation
Frederick Pitzman Fund
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $250k+1 grant · $276k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OZARK LAND TRUST | $276,000 |
| CROSSROADS SCHOOLS | $23,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JOHN BORROUGHS SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| GATEWAY TO THE GREAT OUTDOORS | $3,500 |
| FDN FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| READY READERS | $2,000 |
| RIVER CITY JOURNALISM FUND | $2,000 |
| MISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| NEW CITY SCHOOL INC | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF KWMU | $1,200 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
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 (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +34% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- FPForest Park Forever Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +137%
- CSCROSSROADS SCHOOL DBA CROSSROADS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +3%
- GTGateway to the Great Outdoors6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $7k
- SLST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION Pone grant, 2024 · $5k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
Economic development.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
The st. louis bar foundation promotes the rule of law and the administration of justice in both our society and within the legal profession. the foundation seeks to improve the administration of justice in our community through law related…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Texas Institute of Developmental Pediatrics. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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 OZARK REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC DBA OZARK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL DBA CROSSROADS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Gateway to the Great Outdoors ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New City School Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KWMU INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI FAMILY HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAPPENS INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PREVENTED ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY JOURNALISM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
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 · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Sander Foundation · Pott Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · 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 Frederick Pitzman Fund 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.