· Private foundation
Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $356k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE HOUSE STL | $36,000 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSN OF MISSOURI | $30,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY | $25,000 |
| ST PATRICK CENTER | $25,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE GYM | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION | $20,000 |
| EMMAUS HOMES INC | $20,000 |
| CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS - COCA | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC | $20,000 |
| PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL SEMINARY IN VA | $20,000 |
| GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $10,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $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 (FY18–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS8× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +248%
- SLST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY7× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +75%
- APANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI6× · 2018–2025 · $148k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- CSCARING SOLUTIONS - SERVICES BY DESIGNone grant, 2022 · $28k
- ADARCHCITY DEFENDERSone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +23%
- AAASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION NATIONALone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Community Development and Community Center and social services
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
To empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to lead better lives by providing a lifetime of high-quality services, family support and advocacy.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Perennial. 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 37 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) — 2% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 63 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 FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE STL ↗
- Who funds SAFE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Edward Jones Foundation · Tsf
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 Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn 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.