How much does John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust give?

John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust reported 28 grants totaling $141,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (13%).

Who are John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Missouri Veterans Endeavor ($438k), Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($110k), Memory Care Home Solutions ($105k).

Does John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Pershing Charitable Trust, Centene Foundation.

Where is John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust based?

John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust is based in MO.

John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust

John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust

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.

$142k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$439kArts & Culture$219kEducation$191kHealth$150kEnvironment$110kAnimals$110kYouth Development$105kReligion$77kOther$0

02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k22 grants · $37k
$10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$350k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR	$55,000
ST MICHAELS & ST GEORGE CHURCH	$10,200
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS	$10,000
MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS	$10,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS	$10,000
ST LOUIS ZOO	$10,000
COCA - CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS	$5,000
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,500
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER HOSPITAL	$2,500
TAFT SCHOOL	$2,500
MICDS FUND	$2,500
MARFAN FOUNDATION	$2,000
LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER	$2,000
ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM	$1,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $442k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 44 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+19%

Still filing today

50%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureAnimalsHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MB
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +11%
MC
MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS
8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +73%
MT
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS
3× · 2017–2019 · $46k · revenue +95%

Funded once

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +76%
CO
CREATE OUR FUTURE
one grant, 2018 · $25k
MI
Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day Schoolgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +86%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture

The Saint Louis Zoo Association

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,…

Animals

University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Education

University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Health

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Health

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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Furman University

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.

Education

University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is The Marfan Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

18/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$584,850Human Services$442,000Arts & Culture$127,000Health$121,000Environment$113,000Education$70,500Animals$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Pershing Charitable Trust · Centene Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Stephen F & Camilla T Brauer Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dula-Kobusch Charitable Trust · Bodine Family Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John K and Ellen a Wallace Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home