· Public charity
Greater St Louis Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $484,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $635,844 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,644 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GO ST LOUIS | $115,000 |
| 39 NORTH AGTECH INNOVATION DISTRICT | $100,000 |
| GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ST LOUIS | $30,000 |
| EAST WEST GATEWAY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| HOUSE EVERYONE STL | $24,000 |
| ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION | $19,700 |
| NATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR MODERN TRANSIT | $13,000 |
| HAWTHORN FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| LACLEDE'S LANDING NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| FOCUS ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC | $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 (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Greater St Louis Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS2× · 2021–2022 · $450k · revenue +24%
- DDDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +33%
- MMMissouri Main Street Connection Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- IFINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -15%
- SLST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue 0%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -10%
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…
Economic development.
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.
The TechSTL Council serves as the St Louis champion for technology by strategically and equitably investing in regional collaboration to advance tech workforce development and retention, along with spurring innovation opportunities in…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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).
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
See schedule o.the greater st. louis arts and education council (the arts and education council or the council) was the st. louis region's only united arts fund that pooled together donations from individuals, foundations and corporations…
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,…
Founded in 2002, cortex mission is the creation of the midwest's premier innovation hub of bioscience and technology research, development and commercialization, serving as the anchor of st. louis' growing ecosystem for innovative startup…
Arch grants advances economic development and community revitalization by providing equity-free grants of up to $100,000 and dynamic wraparound support to startup entrepreneurs willing to headquarter their businesses in st. louis. arch…
To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the economic development activities of the city of st. louis, missouri.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Kranzberg Arts Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 39 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 URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds 39 NORTH AGTECH INNOVATION DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES GEOSPATIAL INTELLIGENCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GO ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOUSE EVERYONE STL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Missouri Main Street Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds CEO LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR MODERN TRANSIT ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FERTILIZER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE IN ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Louis Fashion Fund ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTSMANSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SOURCE GEOSPATIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Industrial Asset Management Council 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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · AARP · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Greater St Louis Inc 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.