How much does Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation give?

Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $375,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (51%), Education (19%), Health (12%).

Who are Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Gene Slay's Boys' Club of St Louis Inc ($1.3M), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($179k), Chaminade College Preparatory ($92k).

Does Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gene and Joan Slay Charitable 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 Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.

Where is Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation based?

Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation is based in MO.

Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation

Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$375k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$225k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.6MEducation$586kHealth$369kRecreation & Sports$182kHuman Services$82kPublic Safety & Disaster$58kArts & Culture$53kHousing & Shelter$53kOther$0

02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $75k
$10k–50k6 grants · $76k
$50k–250k1 grant · $225k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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 JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$10,000
ST MARY'S SOUTH SIDE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL	$10,000
SEMPER FI SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS	$10,000
ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY	$10,000
GREATER ST LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC	$5,000
ST LOUIS GUNS N HOSES BOXING ASSOCIATION	$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS	$5,000
CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL	$5,000
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL	$5,000
ST JOSEPH HOUSING INITIATIVE	$5,000
ST LOUIS ITALIAN INVITATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR CHARITIES	$4,500
PEDAL THE CAUSE	$3,000

02The need

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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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.9M · 53 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

Still filing today

64%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

GS
GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +42%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +145%
MJ
MISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +2%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $25k
MC
MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISASTER RECOVERY
one grant, 2017 · $20k
TT
The Tower Grove Park Foundation
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%

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.

Ssm Health Foundation - St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.

—

Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health

St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health

Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement

Ssm Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health

St Patrick Partnership Center

To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

—

St Luke's Des Peres Episcopal- Presbyterian Hospital

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health

Children's Miracle Network of Greater St

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…

Health

Peace for Kids

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…

—

St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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…

—

Ssm St Clare Health Center Foundation

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.

—

Junior Golf Foundation of Greater St Louis

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.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Center-Marygrove; 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.

04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/52

Grantees still filing

37/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$1,367,000Other$1,128,875Health$260,000Education$106,200Human Services$81,800Recreation & Sports$61,000Housing & Shelter$53,000

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

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO48.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gene and Joan Slay Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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