· Private foundation
Kahn Memorial Trust
Its FY2023 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k44 grants · $51k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Louis Community Foundation Inc | $2,139,246 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Jewish Community Center STL | $4,880 |
| Temple Emanuel | $4,500 |
| St Louis Symphony Orchestra | $3,500 |
| Repertory Theatre St Louis | $2,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Anti Defamation League | $2,000 |
| Jewish Community Relations Council | $1,625 |
| Scholarship Foundation STL | $1,500 |
| St Louis Art Museum | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| National Council of Jewish Women ST | $1,180 |
| St Louis Area Food Bank | $1,000 |
| HIAS | $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 (FY21–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
40 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- WPWORLD PEDIATRICS3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +40%
- SLST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TRTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +143%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +20%
- SLST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +35%
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 promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Cinema st. louis engages the st. louis region through educational programs, cultural connectivity, and curated film exhibitions.
Economic development.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
See schedule o.the greater st. louis arts and education council (the arts and education council or the council) was the st. louis region's only united arts fund that pooled together donations from individuals, foundations and corporations…
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
Support and advocate the growth of the arts and culture in the st. louis region through the programming and outreach efforts of a classical music station broadcasting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Shaving Israel. 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 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 73 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 SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Clayton Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds THE CROWN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PIANOS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION ↗
- Who funds SAFE CONNECTIONS ↗
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 · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Gershman Foundation (Formerly Gershman Charitable Trust) · Millstone 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 Kahn Memorial Trust 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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.