· Private foundation
Jms Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k6 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $328k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST LOUIS | $110,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $108,000 |
| OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $30,000 |
| FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN'S SHELTER | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $20,000 |
| STL YOUTH JOBS | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $20,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MIDWEST SECTION PGA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE COLLEGE SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $15,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LEAWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOOD PANTRY | $12,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2020 · $375k · revenue +24%
- MSMIDWEST SECTION PGA FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $178k · revenue +95% · 27% of their budget
- SYSTL YOUTH JOBS5× · 2020–2024 · $124k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF CLUB MILITARY ASSISTANCEone grant, 2017 · $125k
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +196%- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MOone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
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.
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…
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 organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Logan university is a diverse and engaging community committed to excellence in health sciences, education and service.
Education and Research
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…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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 Pound Pets Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 80 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 ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST SECTION PGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STL YOUTH JOBS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The River Ellis Foundation ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA KEYS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PIERRES BIRTHDAY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS 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: World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Hermann Family 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 Jms Charitable 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.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% 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.