· Private foundation
I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| LIFEWISE STL | $2,000 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HOME WORKS THE TEACHER HOME VISIT PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| COCA | $1,000 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| NEW CITY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PIPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +107%
- TWTHE WILSON SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $12k · revenue +48%
- SLST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- MHMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -9%
- CHCLAYTON HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $3k
- LMLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +8%
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.
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.
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Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Momentum academy is an open enrollment public charter school. momentum academy pursues academic excellence in a safe, supportive and loving learning environment.
La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…
In educating the whole child, eton school inspires creative, confident thinkers who have an enduring passion for learning and are poised to contribute to the world.
The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
The museum school celebrates, nurtures and enhances the ability of all participants through experimental, project-based learning. infusing the arts and utilizing resources available at local museums.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The New City School Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from I Have a Dream Foundation St Louis. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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