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Jay Henges 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.
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 $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $540k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $400,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| THE ST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| THE ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $150,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| MISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUN | $50,000 |
| PEDAL THE CAUSE | $30,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| FATHERS FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE BACKSTOPPERS | $25,000 |
| LAFAYETTE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- GRGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE7× · 2019–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +71%
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +72%
- MCMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $204k · revenue +285%
Funded once
- FPForest Park Forever Incgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $400k · revenue +213%
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.
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.
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
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…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO OF MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗
- Who funds POLAR BEARS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Jay Henges Charitable Trust 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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