· Private foundation
Great Rivers Confluence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS | $65,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS | $45,000 |
| GIRLS SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $40,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $40,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CASA OF ST LOUIS | $15,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI | $15,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| DELTA GAMMA CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| BOOKS FOR NEWBORNS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 61% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- TSTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +99%
- SLST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +17%
- COCASA OF ST LOUIS7× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +25%
Funded once
Teach for America Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -3%- CFCENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIESone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -31%
- SSSTEMY STUFF INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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…
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).
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…
Economic development.
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…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Scholarship Foundation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Walter's Walk. 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 47 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.
33 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. 33 of the 44 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WORTH INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Black Girls Do STEM ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE BUDDY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR NEWBORNS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · Pott 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 Great Rivers Confluence 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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