· Private foundation
Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of KURT AND KATIE MUNGENAST CHARITABLE FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $59,000 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| CARITAS CONNECTIONS INC | $20,000 |
| ARMY AVIATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION A | $10,000 |
| LINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS COUNCIL BSA | $7,500 |
| PEDAL THE CAUSE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB IF ALTON INC | $5,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT CENTRAL INC | $5,000 |
| ST GERARD MAJELLA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 83% 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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- LALOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +75%
- CCCaritas Connections Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +10%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- VAVISITATION ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS COUNTYone grant, 2021 · $100k
- WOWINGS OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +20%
- CCCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVEone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -26%
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 food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To save lives through excellence in organ and tissue donation.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Lutheran child and family services of illinois (agency) is a nonprofit statewide social service agency whose mission is to attract, develop, mobilize, and prvoide resources to improve the well-being of children, individuals, families,…
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 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.
19 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. 19 of the 29 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 LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Caritas Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds LINDBERGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds Angel Flight Central Inc ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Warriors Ascent ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY NASHVILLE ↗
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 · The Bellwether Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Berges Family Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Commerce Bancshares 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 Kurt and Katie Mungenast Charitable Fund 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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