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Jefferson Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k136 grants · $2.9M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $4.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $658k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS | $345,488 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JEFFERSON | $312,500 |
| SAINT LOUIS COUNSELING | $200,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $175,000 |
| UPWARD SMILES INC | $150,000 |
| JEFFERSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $125,000 |
| CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $120,000 |
| JEFFERSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $110,490 |
| PONY BIRD INC | $108,912 |
| Individual grant recipient | $108,300 |
| AGING AHEAD | $105,000 |
| PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES | $100,000 |
| OZARK FOOD PANTRY | $100,000 |
| THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $100,000 |
| DISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $8.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Jefferson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +33% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
229 repeat relationships — 172 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 26 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $486k 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
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JEFFERSON8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +202% · 65% of their budget
- CHCHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC4× · 2019–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +80%
- SLSAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FRFESTUS RVI SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $100k
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY (MO) 9-1-1 DISPATCHone grant, 2019 · $73k
- PCPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES OF MISSOURIone grant, 2017 · $60k
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.
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
To empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to lead better lives by providing a lifetime of high-quality services, family support and advocacy.
Provide Case Management for people with developmental disabilities such as autism services, respite care, crisis intervention, self directed services, and Medicaid Home and Cummunity Based Waiver programs.
Inspired by the jewish tradition to make the world a better place, jfs helps and supports people in need to meet their challenges. through a comprehensive range of services, including a food pantry, older adult services, clinical services,…
Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.
Nc mo mental health center delivers high quality trauma-informed behavioral health services in a caring and compassionate atmosphere that promotes dignity, builds on natural supports, encourages consumer choice, embraces cultural…
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
Assist individuals with developmental disabilities in achieving the goal of living in their community of choice with the necessary support
We walk with people facing homelessness on their journey to lifelong stability.
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
To provide outpatient and residential rehabilitative services to individuals and families referred by various government agencies. these individuals include substance abusers, intellectually disabled, developmentally disabled, and abused…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Kinsey Volunteer Fire Dept. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 308 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JEFFERSON ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds UPWARD SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PONY BIRD INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Provident Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE PEACE PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds OATS INC ↗
- Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SUNNYHILL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds PREVENTED ↗
- Who funds Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds Christian Family Services ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIV Recovery Sober Living ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Ozark Food Pantry ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
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 Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · East Missouri Foundation · Norman J Stupp 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 Jefferson Foundation 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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