· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Jefferson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -20% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
132 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jefferson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jefferson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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