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Gateway 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $302k
- $250k+1 grant · $892k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF ST LOUIS | $892,190 |
| ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION | $100,797 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS | $88,265 |
| GRAND CENTER INC | $58,035 |
| CITY OF ST LOUIS | $54,782 |
| NATIONAL PARK SERVICE | $43,989 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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
- CACONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS5× · 2021–2025 · $510k · revenue +54%
- LSLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +71%
- SLST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE2× · 2022–2023 · $59k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TSTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +43%
- SLSt Louis Black Repertory Company Incone grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +23%
- COCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
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 offer everyone the opportunity to put before an audience their works in theater, dance and music.
Art St Louis is a nonprofit community art organization and gallery dedicated to enriching lives through the creative activity of our region's contemporary visual artists. Through exhibition, education, and exchange, we connect and inspire…
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.
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.
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 and…
Franconia sculpture park is the pre-eminent, artist-centered sculpture park in the midwest. founded in 1996, franconia provides physically and intellectually wide-open spaces that inspire new ways of thinking through access to contemporary…
The luminary is a nonprofit art space in st. louis that supports artists and the community through exhibitions, residencies, grants, and public programs. we provide time, space, and resources for creative work and create opportunities for…
ARTICA is a nonprofit arts organization that provides a platform to celebrate the creative spirit of St. Louis culminating in our annual riverfront festival.
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
See schedule o.the greater st. louis arts and education council (the arts and education council or the council) was the st. louis region's only united arts fund that pooled together donations from individuals, foundations and corporations…
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Counterpublic and the most unlike its peers is African Peoples Education and Defen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRAFT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds COUNTERPUBLIC ↗
- Who funds Pride St Louis Inc ↗
- Who funds CINEMA ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN ↗
- Who funds METRO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARTS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Washington University · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable
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 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.
- African Peoples Education and Defen — 66% 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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