· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| FATHERS FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER | $25,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $25,000 |
| THE BACKSTOPPERS | $25,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
| LAFAYETTE ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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,…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 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 CLASSICAL ACADEMY DE LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jay Henges Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jay Henges Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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