How much does Interco Charitable Trust give?

Interco Charitable Trust reported 54 grants totaling $3,228,970 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 66 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Interco Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Arts & Culture (17%), Youth Development (11%).

Who are Interco Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($858k), Greater St Louis Inc ($600k), Washington University ($500k).

Does Interco Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Interco Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Interco Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Pershing Charitable Trust.

Where is Interco Charitable Trust based?

Interco Charitable Trust is based in MO.

Interco Charitable Trust

Interco Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Interco Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.2M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$275k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.0MArts & Culture$2.0MYouth Development$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.0MCommunity Improvement$860kHealth$755kPublic Safety & Disaster$614kFood & Nutrition$480kOther$0

02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k4 grants · $12k
$10k–50k28 grants · $503k
$50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
$250k+3 grants · $775k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$34M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY	$275,000
GREATER ST LOUIS INC	$250,000
CARDINAL GLENNON HOSPITAL	$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ST LOUIS	$185,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER	$132,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$130,000
RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE	$125,000
KRAVIS CENTER	$125,000
THE MUNY	$125,000
ST PATRICK CENTER	$115,000
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY	$110,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY	$107,000
ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION	$105,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH	$105,000
SHOW ME SCHOOL	$100,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 70 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

Still filing today

56%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SL
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
5× · 2020–2024 · $858k · revenue +29%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +16%
FP
Forest Park Forever Inc
5× · 2020–2024 · $434k · revenue +137%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $250k
MH
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +22%
BO
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARK
one grant, 2021 · $102k

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.

Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

St Louis Science Center Foundation

Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Science & Tech

Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health

The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals

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

St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater St Louis Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Kranzberg Arts Foundation. 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

53 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. 53 of the 99 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/53

Grantees still filing

38/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,684,353Education$1,940,000Arts & Culture$1,906,620Community Improvement$660,000Environment$433,500Recreation & Sports$375,000Health$255,000

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.

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.

World Wide Technology FoundationMO39.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Pershing Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Graybar 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 Interco Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Interco Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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