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Jerry and Judy Kent Family 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$974kCommunity Improvement$740kAnimals$565kHuman Services$525kInternational$379kHealth$269kYouth Development$205kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOL$300,000
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$200,000
THE MAGIC HOUSE$145,000
TOWN AND COUNTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$125,000
WATER MISSION$125,000
ARCH GRANTS$125,000
THE COLLEGE SCHOOL$125,000
ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION$110,000
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION$50,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI$50,000
INCARNATE WORD PARISH$30,886
ACCESS ACADEMIES$25,000
ST LOUIS CHESS CLUB$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$10,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $5k → 20%A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 7%A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%A BED 4 ME FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $6k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $4k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $4k → 21%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK: $2k → 11%SWEET BABIES: $1k → 11%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $8k → 11%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $8k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH MISSOURI & KANSAS: $5k → 11%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 21%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 21%FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
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IN
NJ
CA
CO
MO
TN
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 32 repeat orgs$851k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
26

Total granted

$5.3M
$555k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+42%

Still filing today

69%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $296k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • TM
    THE MAGIC HOUSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $693k · revenue +77%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2024 · $600k · revenue +6%
  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $565k · revenue +146%

Funded once

  • DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $155k · revenue +89%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METRO STL
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
Webster University

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.

Education
4
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
5
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
7
Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
8
University of Louisville Physicians Inc

Provide professional medical services in a variety of medical specialties and disciplines in accordance with the corporation's charitable mission: strengthen and broaden the range of skills and patient populations available for physicians…

Health
9
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement
10
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Columbia College

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

Education
12
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Dream Builders 4 Equity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%9%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr24%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr24%29%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,435

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.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 70 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOL — $1,205,000 · OtherST LOUIS PRIORY SCHOOLRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $285,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC — $200,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INCCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $150,000 · OtherSTL AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION — $150,000 · OtherTOWN AND COUNTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $125,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $125,000 · Other+46 more — $888,326 · Other+46 moreST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIV…University of Notre Dame du Lac — $50,000 · EducationUniversity of…ACCESS ACADEMIES — $25,000 · Education+5 more — $38,000 · EducationTHE MAGIC HOUSE — $692,600 · Arts & CultureTHE MAGIC HO…ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $475,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENE…GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST…+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $565,000 · AnimalsTHE SAINT …WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $360,000 · International+2 more — $9,400 · InternationalDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $155,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,128,326Education$713,000Arts & Culture$692,600Community Improvement$585,000Animals$565,000International$369,400Youth Development$155,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE — $692,600 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $565,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $475,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $360,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $155,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEGE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $89,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS MIDWEST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS ACADEMIES — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetA BED 4 ME FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetWHITFIELD SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WIN MISSOURI — $16,800 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHESS CLUB AND SCHOLASTIC CENTER OF ST LOUIS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI — $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CABLE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERGEN FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUO DOGS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROOTED SISTERS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRURAL PARISH CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALIGHT — $3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDWIGHT-ENGLEWOOD SCHOOL — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…Centene FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…Youthbridge Community…Moneta Group Charitab…Berges Family Foundat…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO37.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable

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 Jerry and Judy Kent Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Bergen Family Center — 25% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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