· Private foundation
John Henry Foster and Bernadine Foster Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| ASPIRE ADVOCATES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEA | $11,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $6,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| ST LOUIS AQUARIUM FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| AMCP | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JOY PETALERS | $2,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,350 |
| ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
53 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 14 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES9× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +37%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +76%- FOFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- KDKILO DIABETES & VASCULAR RESEARCHone grant, 2017 · $46k
- GRGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -1%
- CFCHESTERFIELD FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2023 · $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.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
To save lives through excellence in organ and tissue donation.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Msma's mission is to serve its members through promotion of the science & art of medicine, protection of the health of the public & betterment of the medical profession in missouri.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
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…
The association provides knowledge, guidance and resources which enhances members' professionalism and success, supports growth in the area's diverse communities and protects private property rights.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Bloomington Creative Glass Center. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
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 85 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 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Aspire Advocates for Behavioral Health Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds WILD CANID SURVIVAL AND RESEARCH CENTER INC DBA ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO OF MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds DECEMBER 5TH FUND ↗
- Who funds DISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HEROES CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
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 · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Blues for Kids · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Four Leaf Clover 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 John Henry Foster and Bernadine Foster 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.
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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