· Public charity
Jewish Federation of St Louis
Jewish federation of st.
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.
The 101 grants below total $8,051,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,620,187 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,568,531 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k29 grants · $196k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $785k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Community Center-STL | $1,440,646 |
| Jewish Family Services | $1,256,570 |
| St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum | $544,311 |
| Jewish Community Relations Council | $423,970 |
| Torah Prep School | $421,854 |
| Jewish Federation of Omaha | $404,000 |
| Covenant Place Foundation | $277,206 |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center | $250,350 |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews | $210,000 |
| Crown Center for Senior Living | $207,206 |
| Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School | $181,156 |
| Hillel at Washington University | $173,576 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc | $165,818 |
| Epstein Hebrew Academy | $122,285 |
| Center of Creative Arts (COCA) | $114,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
102 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2023, 43 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS6× · 2017–2023 · $5.9M · revenue +31%
- CPCOVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +42% · 57% of their budget
- SMSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +0%
Funded once
- MTMISSOURI TORAH INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $132k · revenue -14%
- SESOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +75%
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $72k · revenue +76%
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.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
To enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 190 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TORAH CENTER-MIDWEST INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CROWN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ESTHER MILLER BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVAT KADIMAH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds JNC STL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI TORAH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Staenberg Family Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Millstone Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable 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 Jewish Federation of St Louis 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.