Missouri · Private foundation
Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation
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.
- $400k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 85
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $400k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $267k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 85 | $289k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $172k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $232k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $306k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $278k | 85% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $108k | 86% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dance Saint Louis | $110,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Stages St Louis | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cinema St Louis | $90,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The Cat Shelter | $57,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation | $51,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Louis Art Museum Foundation | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Cabaret Project of Saint Louis | $39,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Saint Louis Fashion Fund | $33,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Repertory Theatre of St Louis | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Centene Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation
- How much does Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation give?
- Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $399,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 85 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (43%), Health (23%), Animals (11%).
- Who are Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dance Saint Louis ($110k), Stages St Louis ($90k), Cinema St Louis ($90k).
- Does Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation 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 Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission, St Louis Community Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation based?
- Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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