· Private foundation
Innovative Technology Education Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORMANDY SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE | $70,515 |
| SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT OF UNIVERSITY CITY | $60,564 |
| MAPLEWOOD RICHMOND HEIGHTS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $59,791 |
| THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF UNIVERSITY CITY | $58,594 |
| HILLSBORO R-3 SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| LEBANON COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $29,996 |
| SUNRISE R-9 SCHOOL DISTRICT | $23,573 |
| AL-SALAM DAY SCHOOL | $16,500 |
| VALLEY PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,954 |
| HANCOCK PLACE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $12,954 |
| CONNECTED LEARNING | $5,250 |
| FERGUSON FLORISSANT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,050 |
| USGBC MO GATEWAY CHAPTER | $5,000 |
| NEBSA | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 4 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $112k · revenue +149%
- TSTHE SOULARD SCHOOL3× · 2017–2022 · $99k · revenue +63%
- PIPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $34k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- SHSUMNER HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $65k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $62k
- MBMARGARET BUERKLE MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $61k
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.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
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,…
The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to first serve families and children by giving them a Biblically-based education centered on a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, imparting a Christian world view and emphasizing Godly…
Momentum academy is an open enrollment public charter school. momentum academy pursues academic excellence in a safe, supportive and loving learning environment.
The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.
Hogan preparatory academy is an exceptional k-12 public charter school where students become compassionate leaders who are college and career ready with a distinct competitive advantage.
Saint Louis Sudbury School offers self-directed education for ages 5-18. Our mission: "We believe that children are born with the drive and skills to create a meaningful and successful life and learn best when given the opportunity to…
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
Teachers, parents, and students work together to develop young people who are confident and achieve academic excellence in a powerful college prep curriculum. students do not question "whether" they will go to college but, instead, ask…
Atlas public schools nurtures a thriving community by educating the whole child through a rigorous academic program enriched with real-world experiences, while prioritizing the support, growth, and sustainability of our dedicated educators.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fulton School and the most unlike its peers is National Ebs Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 101 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.
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 · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust · Dewitt and Caroline Van Evera Fdn
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 Innovative Technology Education Fund 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.
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