How much did GRAYBAR FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of GRAYBAR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

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2023

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2024

furtherance foundationsfoundations exemptexempt furtherance

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k49 grants · $184k
$10k–50k31 grants · $429k
$50k–250k2 grants · $270k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants

United Way of Greater St Louis$210,000
The Blackbaud Giving Fund$60,468
St Louis Zoo Association$30,000
American Heart Association$25,000
Catholic Charities$25,000
Humane Society of Missouri$15,100
St Louis Community Foundation$15,000
Missouri Botanical Garden$15,000
St Louis Crisis Nursery$15,000
The Oasis Institute$15,000
Loyola Academy of St Louis$15,000
American Red Cross$15,000
St Louis Area Food Bank$15,000
Junior Achievement$15,000
The Magic House$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

St Louis University

To seek excellence in teaching, research, health care, and service to the community as guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the society of jesus.

Education

Saint Louis Symphony Endowment Trust

To support the st louis symphony orchestra.

Arts & Culture

St Louis Service Bureau Foundation

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St Louis Chapter

Railroad history education through various meetings and events.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Federation of St Louis

Preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

Art Saint Louis

Creating and presenting original exhibitions, educational programming and support services.

Arts & Culture

Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement

St Louis Community Foundation

Administer charitable funds for the betterment of st. louis

Philanthropy

Winter Opera St Louis

Provide people of st. louis an evening of opera during winter months, to invest in local artists, and to enhance public appreciation for opera in st. louis.

Arts & Culture

University of Missouri Alumni

The mu alumni association proudly supports the best interests and traditions of missouri's flagship university and its alumni worldwide. lifelong relationships are the foundation of our support. these relationships are enhanced through…

Education

St Louis Reconciliation Network

Community Improvement

The Legacy Center Stl

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Rockhurst University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/49

the rest of the field

12%

1,245/10,108

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

48/48

Grantees still filing

34/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,627,901Philanthropy$270,468Health$57,500Human Services$41,500Arts & Culture$33,500Education$26,000Recreation & Sports$21,000

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO53.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Employees of Community Fund · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis

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 organisation GRAYBAR 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Semper Fi Society of St Louis.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 273259253 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Semper Fi Society of St Louis, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Graybar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Graybar Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GRAYBAR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Graybar Foundation?

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GRAYBAR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Graybar Foundation?

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