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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$892k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Public Benefit$12MEnvironment$1.6MArts & Culture$1.3MRecreation & Sports$175kCivil Rights$53kYouth Development$47kCommunity Improvement$8kPhilanthropy$2k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $302k
  • $250k+1 grant · $892k
$88,265
Median grant
1
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PERENNIAL ST LOUIS: $47k → 21%COUNTERPUBLIC: $29k → 21%COUNTERPUBLIC: $21k → 21%ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $101k → 11%REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION: $45k → 21%LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $35k → 11%REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION: $40k → 21%ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $36k → 11%REGIONAL ARTS COMMISSION: $40k → 21%ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $23k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $161k → 21%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $95k → 21%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $88k → 21%THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $88k → 21%THE BLACK REP: $52k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $82k → 21%CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS (COCA): $50k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $70k → 21%ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE: $54k → 21%CRAFT ALLIANCE: $30k → 21%CRAFT ALLIANCE: $30k → 21%CRAFT ALLIANCE: $18k → 21%PRIDE ST LOUIS INC: $16k → 21%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $1.1M → 21%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $168k → 21%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $133k → 21%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $108k → 21%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $85k → 21%NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $44k → 21%ARTS IN TRANSIT INC (BI-STATE): $25k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $3.4M → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $1.6M → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $1.5M → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $961k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $950k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $892k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $845k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $649k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $397k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $277k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $165k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $78k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $62k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $58k → 21%GRAND CENTER INC: $58k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $55k → 21%CITY OF ST LOUIS: $46k → 21%THE BIG MUDDY DANCE COMPANY: $39k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 14 repeat orgs$390k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$15M
$332k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+17%

Still filing today

64%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $510k · revenue +54%
  • LS
    LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +71%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $59k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +43%
  • SL
    St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +23%
  • CO
    CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Lou Fringe

To offer everyone the opportunity to put before an audience their works in theater, dance and music.

Arts & Culture
2
Art St Louis

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

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.

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
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 and…

Arts & Culture
6
Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The Luminary Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Artica

ARTICA is a nonprofit arts organization that provides a platform to celebrate the creative spirit of St. Louis culminating in our annual riverfront festival.

Arts & Culture
9
Kmac Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council

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…

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11
St Louis Shakespeare Festival

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

Arts & Culture
12
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Counterpublic; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF ST LOUIS: $11,930,267 · OtherCITY OF ST LOUISNATIONAL PARK SERVICE: $1,612,302 · OtherNATIONAL PARK SERVICE+11 more: $327,849 · OtherCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $509,710 · Arts & CultureCRAFT ALLIANCE: $122,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $87,538 · Arts & CultureLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $60,240 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE: $59,140 · Arts & CultureGRAND CENTER INC: $58,035 · Arts & CultureSt Louis Black Repertory Company Inc: $51,861 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOUNTERPUBLIC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $35,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $160,112 · PhilanthropyPride St Louis Inc: $42,703 · Civil RightsAFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$13,870,418Arts & Culture$1,084,024Philanthropy$160,112Civil Rights$52,703

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $509,710 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $160,112 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetCRAFT ALLIANCE: $122,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION: $87,538 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $60,240 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE: $59,140 over 2y, 14% of budgetSt Louis Black Repertory Company Inc: $51,861 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOUNTERPUBLIC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPride St Louis Inc: $42,703 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCINEMA ST LOUIS: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMETRO THEATER COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Regional Cultural and…The Greater St Louis …St Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…Edward Jones Foundati…The Kranzberg Family …Leon and Mary Strauss…Moneta Group Charitab…Centene FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…Washington UniversityJordan Mary R & Ettie…
Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development CommissionMO34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gateway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gateway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • African Peoples Education and Defen: 66% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Gateway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gateway Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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