· Private foundation
G Andrew Franz Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS | $60,000 |
| EVOLUTION FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FORGOTTEN | $17,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION | $8,800 |
| WINGS PROGRAM | $4,500 |
| JOB SEEKERS GARDEN CLUB | $4,500 |
| BECAUSE OF BRUCEY | $4,500 |
| RISE UP TRANSITIONAL RESOURCES | $4,500 |
| LITSHOP | $4,500 |
| LITERACY AND HOPE FUND | $4,500 |
| STL YOUTH JOBS | $4,500 |
| HEALS CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $4,500 |
| VIRTUALLY ANGELIC FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| UNITED FUND OF STOKES CO | $4,500 |
| THIS JOURNEY MINISTRIES | $4,500 |
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, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 34% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +100% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 28 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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
- CTCONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS9× · 2017–2025 · $710k · revenue +7%
- FMFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $70k · revenue +151%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY5× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +86%
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUISone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%
- ABAlleluia Baskets Incone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Marie's World Inc. is a youth servicing organization designed to decrease gun violence. We provide support and guidance to youth and young adults ages 8-24 years old in the development of life skills to succeed and be a positive influence…
Journey To Destiny Ministries (JTDM) is a global, faith-based nonprofit organization committed to transforming and restoring dignity, hope, and opportunity to vulnerable individualsespecially children, women, and families affected by…
Our goal is to connect individuals in St Charles County with resources to address their specific need(s), on a case-by-case basis. We provide food boxes, holiday meal boxes, distribute meals, supplies, and clothing to the homeless, and…
Our vision is to be a catalyst for god-inspired transformation through artisan enterprise, leading to abundant & purposeful lives. our mission is to empower women & families overcoming trauma & injustice, bridging the gap from pain to…
To equip single mother to move their families from poverty to prosperty
Created to stabalize the economic hardship of women & children
Women Enabled Enterprises strives to help low income women of color artisans in African countries grow their craft business for self-sufficiency through a virtual, mobile-phone based, retail entrepreneurship skills building program, access…
THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION IS to inspire hope and empower underserved youth with economic opportunities, while building resiliency and social-emotional competencies.
To be a bridge supporter for girls going from grade to grade and level to level in the educational system as they journey through the course of life in every field of life as entrepreneur career and education with certified leadership and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Success and the most unlike its peers is Tech With Heart Foundation. 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 10 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 129 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 CONNECTIONS TO SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Forgotten ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Alleluia Baskets Inc ↗
- Who funds HenRose Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds A RED CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Tech With Heart Foundation ↗
- Who funds Resource Recovery Project ↗
- Who funds YUPPY PUPPIES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY PATHFINDERS ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SHE IS THE UNIVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING YOUTH AND COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA ↗
- Who funds Diane's Heart Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ACCESS TO MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Sickle Cell Association ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds UNITY EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis ArtWorks ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Dennis M Jones Family Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Norman J Stupp 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 G Andrew Franz Family 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.
- Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc — 11% 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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