· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $49,583 |
| BARNARD FREE SKIN AND CANCER HOSPITAL | $49,583 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $49,583 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $49,583 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $49,583 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILDREN'S HOME | $49,583 |
| YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $49,583 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR KANSAS CITY | $49,583 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL- BSA | $49,583 |
| SUSAN R BUDER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION | $49,583 |
| SHRINERS' HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $49,583 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $24,794 |
| THOMAS DUNN MEMORIALS LEARNING CENTER | $24,794 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES6× · 2020–2025 · $281k · revenue +14%
- ECEvangelical Children's Home6× · 2020–2025 · $271k · revenue +20%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $266k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- BFBarnard Free Skin And Cancer Hospitalone grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue 0%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCILone grant, 2025 · $50k · revenue -25%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Evangelical Children's Home ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds Thomas Dunn Memorials ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Barnard Free Skin And Cancer Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leo R Buder Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo R Buder Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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