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Leo R Buder Foundation Trust
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 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
- $10k–50k34 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $74,375 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $64,588 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $49,583 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR KANSAS CITY | $49,583 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL- BSA | $49,583 |
| BARNARD FREE SKIN AND CANCER HOSPITAL | $49,583 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $49,583 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $49,583 |
| SUSAN R BUDER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $49,583 |
| SHRINERS' HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $49,583 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $49,583 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILDREN'S HOME | $49,583 |
| YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $49,583 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $24,794 |
| KINGDOM HOUSE | $24,794 |
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k 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 TRUSTEES6× · 2020–2025 · $281k · revenue +42%
- ECEvangelical Children's Home6× · 2020–2025 · $271k · revenue +24%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $266k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCILone grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue -25%
- BFBarnard Free Skin And Cancer Hospitalone grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
- SLST LOUIS ZOO ENDOWMENTone grant, 2025 · $25k
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.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Luminis health's mission is to enhance the health of the people and communities we serve. our vision is living healthier together. we believe that health and wellness are fundamental to everyone. we work side-by-side with our community and…
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Dunn Memorials. 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 82 years old; the field is 18. 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 15% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 Evangelical Children's Home ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds Thomas Dunn Memorials ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Barnard Free Skin And Cancer Hospital ↗
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: Co Tr Ua Viola J Reynolds · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Edward Jones 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 Leo R Buder Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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