· Private foundation
John & Mary Jane Lee Char Fdn
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL HOME | $20,000 |
| SAMARAS VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT OF ST CHARLES INC | $12,500 |
| PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ST AUSTIN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ARCHODIOCESAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS - OF | $7,500 |
| OUR LADY'S INN | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S SOUTH SIDE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHO | $5,000 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- JPJOHN PAUL II PREPARATORY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $198k · revenue +97%
- MOMOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL HOME5× · 2020–2025 · $195k · revenue +47%
- BOBIRTHRIGHT OF ST CHARLES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SVSAMARAS VILLAGE - SACRED HEART CATHOLICone grant, 2024 · $20k
- DODAUGHTERS OF ST PAUL INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BTBILLIKEN TEACHER CORPone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
As a faith-based organization, our mission is to create vibrant communities through affordable quality housing where low and moderate income families can thrive, prosper and build wealth.
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
The little sisters of the poor operate st. joseph's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france…
Inspired by jesus christ, st patrick apartments, inc. assists cardinal ritter senior services in providing compassionate care through a continuum of high quality residential healthcare and supportive social services. we bring the mission…
The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…
44-bed licensed skilled nursing home in catonsville, maryland that provides nursing care services to its residents.
St. patrick center transforms lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
Rooted in the Marianist spirit, St. Marys South Side Catholic High School forms all young men as leaders in a brotherhood of unity, empathy, dignity, and respect to uplift our neighborhood, community, and world.
Serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an intentional, faith-based community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service and the most unlike its peers is Broader Visions for Schools in Africa I. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 JOHN PAUL II PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL HOME ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF ST CHARLES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds STS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ONE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SAMARA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BROADER VISIONS FOR SCHOOLS IN AFRICA I ↗
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 · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Edward Jones Foundation · The Shaughnessy Family Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 John & Mary Jane Lee Char Fdn 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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