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Guth Foundation Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE BACKSTOPPERS INC$50,000
AMERICA'S HEARTLAND REMEMBERS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-ANDERSON CANCER CTR$50,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
RANKEN-JORDAN HOME FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN$50,000
PEDAL THE CAUSE$50,000
CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY$50,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$30,000
ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC$25,000
WINTER OPERA OF ST LOUIS$25,000
COALITION FOR LIFE ST LOUIS$25,000
MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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
MI
NY
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
NC
DC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • AI
    ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +66%
  • PT
    PEDAL THE CAUSE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • 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%
  • HA
    HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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.

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.

—
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…

—
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…

—
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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Saint Louis Zoo Association; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 52 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
16/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 LOUISFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $70,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 0.7% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION LIFE: $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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 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 budgetDUO DOGS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADY READERS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO HANDBALL ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE: $30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLift for Life Gym Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    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 52 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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