· Private foundation
Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENE SLAY'S GIRLS & BOYS CLUB OF ST LOUIS | $224,500 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TIGER SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $16,000 |
| ST MARY'S SOUTH SIDE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SEMPER FI SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOUSING INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC | $5,000 |
| CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS GUNS N HOSES BOXING ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS ITALIAN INVITATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR CHARITIES | $4,500 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- GSGENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +42%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +145%- MJMISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY DISASTER RECOVERYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- BHBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +26%
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.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Impacting the lives of hospitalized children and their families by raising funds and awareness equally benefiting our member hospitals, st. louis children's hospital and ssm health cardinal glennon children's hospital. funds are used for…
The mission of peace for kids is to provide a comprehensive, quality child development program for a diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. peace for kids is committed to assisting working families with safe, quality child care at…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.
To impact the lives of young people in the greater st. louis area by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Center-Marygrove and the most unlike its peers is Friends Forever 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 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 82 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 GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLF FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Housing Initiative ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ITALIAN INVITATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Guns N Hoses Boxing Association ↗
- Who funds JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PEACE INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY FUND ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds PAUL SIMON JR IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds THE NEXT STEP ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Mary's South Side Catholic High School ↗
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 · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Centene Foundation · Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation · 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 Gene and Joan Slay Charitable 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.
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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