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Guth Foundation Charitable Trust

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.

$935k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$450kArts & Culture$405kHealth$390kHuman Services$366kAnimals$225kReligion$140kCivil Rights$125kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $410k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $525k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
ST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK$75,000
CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY$50,000
THE BACKSTOPPERS INC$50,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
RANKEN-JORDAN HOME FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN$50,000
AMERICA'S HEARTLAND REMEMBERS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-ANDERSON CANCER CTR$50,000
PEDAL THE CAUSE$50,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$30,000
WINTER OPERA OF ST LOUIS$25,000
COALITION FOR LIFE ST LOUIS$25,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC$25,000
CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COALITION FOR LIFE ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%COALITION FOR LIFE ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%COALITION FOR LIFE ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
MI
NY
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
NC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 29 repeat orgs$780k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
16

Total granted

$2.0M
$570k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+5%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AI
    ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +66%
  • PT
    PEDAL THE CAUSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +33%
  • CL
    COALITION LIFE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -7%
  • CJ
    CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
2
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
3
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
4
St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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7
St Louis Mediation Project Inc

The corporation exists to provide pro bono (free) mediation and other dispute resolution services to communities in need, and any other charitable purpose allowed under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended.

Crime & Legal
8
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
St Louis Christian College

Saint louis christian college prepares biblical servant leaders for urban, suburban, rural, and global ministry.

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10
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
11
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Saint Louis Zoo Association and the most unlike its peers is Life Runners. 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 40 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr18%20%35–55yr19%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr16%22%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr18%16%35–55yr19%44%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
14%
1,496/10,959

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $328,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK — $150,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARKRANKEN-JORDAN HOME FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $141,400 · OtherRANKEN-JORDAN HOME FOR CRIPPLED CHILDRENST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOLTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $100,000 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $70,000 · OtherBEYOND HOUSING INC — $60,000 · Other+23 more — $721,000 · Other+23 moreACCURACY IN MEDIA INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureACCURACY IN ME…MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTO…AMERICA'S HEARTLAND REMEMBERS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA'S HEAR…WINTER OPERA ST LOUIS — $45,000 · Arts & CultureWINTER OPERA S…PEDAL THE CAUSE — $100,000 · Human ServicesCOALITION LIFE — $75,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $15,000 · Human ServicesMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $55,000 · EducationREADY READERS — $40,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationTHE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE — $30,000 · EducationCITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Civil RightsLIFE RUNNERS — $45,000 · Civil RightsBIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS — $30,000 · Civil RightsTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $50,000 · HealthTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC — $30,000 · HealthMercy Health Foundation — $25,000 · HealthSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE — $20,000 · HealthTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Animals
Other$1,740,400Arts & Culture$370,000Human Services$205,000Education$195,000Civil Rights$125,000Health$125,000Animals$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACCURACY IN MEDIA INC — $175,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOALITION LIFE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUO DOGS INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWINTER OPERA ST LOUIS — $45,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLIFE RUNNERS — $45,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREADY READERS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLift for Life Gym Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE — $30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO HANDBALL ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMercy Health Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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 Fo…St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…World Wide Technology…Employees Community F…Pott FoundationTsfEdward Jones Foundati…Sam and Marilyn Fox F…Brown Dana Charitable…Roman Catholic Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO34.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Tsf · Edward Jones Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Commerce Bancshares 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 Guth Foundation Charitable Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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