How much did GATEWAY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of GATEWAY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

artwestsheldonplaza

2021

lightillumination

2022

muralvanartsilluminationgyo obataobata fellowshipadministrative

2023

arts fellowshipmural artscivil courtsadministrativestreet

2024

futurecraftingmural artsfellowship

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $9k
$10k–50k7 grants · $207k
$50k–250k2 grants · $189k
$250k+2 grants · $5.0M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$101M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF ST LOUIS$3,370,075
CITY OF ST LOUIS$1,594,893
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE$107,519
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM$81,735
PERENNIAL ST LOUIS$47,122
REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION$40,000
LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK$35,000
COUNTERPUBLIC$29,100
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION$23,165
CRAFT ALLIANCE$17,500
CRAFT ALLIANCE$15,000
THE CABARET PROJECT ST LOUIS$8,080
THE BIG MUDDY DANCE COMPANY$1,298
PRIDE ST LOUIS INC$103

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 14 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

+13%

Still filing today

57%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

LS
LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK
4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +9%
SL
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $59k · revenue +327%
C
COUNTERPUBLIC
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +2550%

Funded once

TS
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +13%
TB
THE BLACK REP
one grant, 2022 · $52k
CO
CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS
one grant, 2023 · $50k

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

04Your field

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.

Art Saint Louis

Creating and presenting original exhibitions, educational programming and support services.

Arts & Culture

St Louis Shakespeare Festival

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

Arts & Culture

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.

Arts & Culture

St Louis Artists Guild

The St. Louis Artists Guild (Guild) inspires art experiences through extraordinary exhibitions, interactive art education, outreach to underserved audiences, and by fostering creativity throughout the community.

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Regional Cultural and Performing Arts

Promote, encourage, and foster the arts & culture within the st. louis, missouri area

Arts & Culture

The Repertory Theatre of St Louis

The repertory theatre of st. louis creates bridges between people in the st. louis region and beyond through expertly crafted theatrical experiences that are joyful, unique, inspiring, and thought-provoking.

Arts & Culture

Winter Opera St Louis

Provide people of st. louis an evening of opera during winter months, to invest in local artists, and to enhance public appreciation for opera in st. louis.

Arts & Culture

Upstream Theater

Upstream Theater is a professional production company dedicated to bringing a world of theater to St. Louis. We believe that art engages as much as it entertains, and that by feeding the senses, we feed the soul. Our goal is to move you…

Arts & Culture

Stray Dog Theatre

Stray dog theatre is committed to unleashing the art of theatre, education, and community on saint louis and the surrounding area.

Arts & Culture

Contemporary Art Museum St Louis

Contemporary art museum st. louis creates meaningful engagement with the most relevant and innovative art being made today.

Arts & Culture

St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc

To provide platforms for theatre, dance, and other creative expressions from an African American perspective that heighten the social and cultural awareness of its audiences

Arts & Culture

Lincoln Arts Council

Promote art/culture in lincoln

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laumeier Sculpture Park and the most unlike its peers is St Louis Shakespeare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

8/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$13,412,763Arts & Culture$399,418Philanthropy$59,315Civil Rights$42,703

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.

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.

Regional Cultural and Performing ArtsMO24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Greater St Louis · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Washington University · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation GATEWAY 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 431448350 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Gateway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gateway Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GATEWAY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gateway Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GATEWAY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Gateway Foundation?

More from the funding graph