Missouri · Private foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $88,265
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $892,190
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $83M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Gateway Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $5.4M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $3.6M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.9M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $1.8M | 44% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of St Louis | $11,930,267 | 6 | n/a |
| Contemporary Art Museum St Louis | $509,710 | 5 | 5% |
| St Louis County Parks Foundation | $160,112 | 3 | 9% |
| Craft Alliance | $122,500 | 3 | 4% |
| The Sheldon Arts Foundation | $87,538 | 1 | 2% |
| Laumeier Sculpture Park | $60,240 | 4 | 2% |
| St Louis Shakespeare | $59,140 | 2 | 14% |
| Grand Center Inc | $58,035 | 1 | n/a |
| St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc | $51,861 | 1 | 4% |
| Center of Creative Arts | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of St Louis | $11,930,267 | 6 | n/a |
| Contemporary Art Museum St Louis | $509,710 | 5 | 5% |
| St Louis County Parks Foundation | $160,112 | 3 | 9% |
| Craft Alliance | $122,500 | 3 | 4% |
| The Sheldon Arts Foundation | $87,538 | 1 | 2% |
| Laumeier Sculpture Park | $60,240 | 4 | 2% |
| St Louis Shakespeare | $59,140 | 2 | 14% |
| Grand Center Inc | $58,035 | 1 | n/a |
| St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc | $51,861 | 1 | 4% |
| Center of Creative Arts | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Counterpublic | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Pride St Louis Inc | $42,703 | 4 | 5% |
| Cinema St Louis | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Board of Commissioners of Tower Grove Park | $14,935 | 1 | n/a |
| African Peoples Education and Defen | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Metro Theater Company | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Louis Arts Chamber of Commerce | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gateway Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Gateway Foundation
- How much does Gateway Foundation give?
- Gateway Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $1,238,058 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gateway Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (79%), Environment (11%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Gateway Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: City of St Louis ($12M), Contemporary Art Museum St Louis ($510k), St Louis County Parks Foundation ($160k).
- Does Gateway Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gateway Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gateway Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission, The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Gateway Foundation based?
- Gateway Foundation is based in MO.
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