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Graybar Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Philanthropy$3.5MHealth$153kHuman Services$94kArts & Culture$49kAnimals$48kEducation$38kYouth Development$36kRecreation & Sports$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $172k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $369k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $420k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$6,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Greater St Louis$275,000
St Louis Community Foundation$100,000
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$100,000
Your Cause LLC$69,915
Heat Up St Louis Inc$50,000
St Louis Integrated Health Network$50,000
American Red Cross$50,000
BarnesJewish Hospital$25,000
American Heart Association Inc$25,000
Boys Hope Girls Hope$22,500
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Womens Foundation of Greater STL$20,000
American Cancer Society$20,000
Junior Achievement$16,000
Oasis$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $50k → 14%Herzberg Family Wellness Foundation: $1k → 9%American Red Cross: $15k → 14%Home Sweet Home: $2k → 11%Walters Walk: $1k → 11%Home Sweet Home: $2k → 11%Semper Fi Society of St Louis: $10k → 11%Boys Hope Girls Hope: $23k → 21%Semper Fi Society of St Louis: $10k → 11%MakeAWish Missouri and Kansas: $3k → 11%Heat Up St Louis Inc: $50k → 21%Gateway Region Ymca: $13k → 21%Blues For Kids: $2k → 21%Blues For Kids: $2k → 21%The Oasis Institute: $15k → 11%Joshua Chamberlain Society: $10k → 11%St Louis Arc Inc: $3k → 11%St Louis Arc Inc: $3k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
CA
MO
VA
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 44 repeat orgs$781k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
37

Total granted

$4.5M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

77%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k 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
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +3%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • LA
    LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +36%
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.

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Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
3
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
St Louis Science Center Foundation

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).

Science & Tech
5
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
6
St Louis Association of Realtors

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.

—
7
The St Louis Children's Choirs

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…

—
8
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…

—
9
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
10
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
11
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

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

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; the most unlike its peers is The Herzberg Family Wellness 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

82 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. 82 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
29/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST: $3,194,801 · OtherLIST AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST+68 more: $911,415 · Other+68 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $485,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $60,468 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBA…ST LOUIS INTEGRATED HEALTH NETWORK: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthLUKE 181 FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthCHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · HealthMIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Health+7 more: $27,500 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 · Human ServicesHEAT UP ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHOPE IGNITES: $22,500 · Human ServicesSemper Fi Society of St Louis: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE OASIS INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesThe Joshua Chamberlain Society: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $17,500 · Human ServicesTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL FESTIVALS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $30,100 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · AnimalsWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY: $5,000 · AnimalsST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $2,500 · AnimalsMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $30,000 · EnvironmentForest Park Forever Inc: $20,000 · Environment
Other$4,106,216Philanthropy$545,468Health$262,500Human Services$212,500Arts & Culture$68,500Animals$67,600Environment$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $485,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $60,468 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAT UP ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $30,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES: $22,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUKE 181 FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi Society of St Louis: $20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OASIS INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LITTLE HAVEN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAYTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMIDWEST HEALTH INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL FESTIVALS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Joshua Chamberlain Society: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetClayton Community Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICA SCORES: $7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Centene FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…United Way of Greater…Edward Jones Foundati…Commerce Bancshares F…Employees Community F…St Louis Community Fo…Pershing Charitable T…Norman J Stupp Founda…Brown Dana Charitable…
Centene FoundationMO49.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust

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 Graybar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Graybar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 116 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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