· Private foundation
Gertrude & William Bernoudy Fnd
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of GERTRUDE & WILLIAM BERNOUDY FND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $50,000 |
| METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS KAPLAN FELDMAN HOLOCAUST | $50,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| FAIR ST LOUIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOME EBSWORTH PARK | $20,000 |
| CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS | $20,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS GATEWAY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| KIDSMART | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $20,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
16 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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
- WUWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS2× · 2021–2023 · $600k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI2× · 2021–2023 · $100k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI2× · 2021–2023 · $100k
Funded once
- SLST. LOUIS KAPLAN FELDMANone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CCCOCA CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTSone grant, 2021 · $45k
- LALANDMARKS ASSOCIATION OF ST. LOUISone grant, 2023 · $25k
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 promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
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…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
The association provides knowledge, guidance and resources which enhances members' professionalism and success, supports growth in the area's diverse communities and protects private property rights.
Economic development.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 61 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 METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN EBSWORTH PARK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation
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 Gertrude & William Bernoudy Fnd 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.