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Michael & Quirsis Riney Family Fndn at a glance

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Michael & Quirsis Riney Family Fndn

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.

$7.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$4.9MEnvironment$3.0MAnimals$2.4MCommunity Improvement$200kRecreation & Sports$75kFood & Nutrition$50kInternational$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,527,597
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$6,527,597
SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION$599,418
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIDSMART: $25k → 11%ARCH GRANTS: $100k → 21%KIDSMART: $25k → 11%ARCH GRANTS: $50k → 21%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%ARCH GRANTS: $50k → 21%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $25k → 21%RAINTREE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $25k → 21%BACKSTOPPERS: $26k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $25k → 21%MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $6.5M → 11%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1.0M → 21%MARY INSTITUTE AND SAINT LOUIS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4.6M → 11%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS: $1.0M → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100k → 11%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS: $981k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $608k → 21%DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $25k → 11%SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $600k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $600k → 21%DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $25k → 11%SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $599k → 21%SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $598k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 9 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$18M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+49%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementScience & TechInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MI
    Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11M · revenue +13%
  • TS
    THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +126%
  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • RF
    RAINTREE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +178%
  • TB
    THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +49%
  • HL
    HISPANIC LEADERS GROUP OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +20% · 50% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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2
St Louis Science Center Foundation

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).

Science & Tech
3
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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4
Jefferson National Parks Association

Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

Arts & Culture
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
12
Southwestern Law School

For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Saint Louis Zoo Association; the most unlike its peers is Raintree Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $11,101,140 · EducationMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School+3 more: $300,298 · EducationMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $3,000,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL …+1 more: $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $3,006,056 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO…ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $50,000 · Science & TechJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $25,692 · OtherHISPANIC LEADERS GROUP OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $20,000 · Civil Rights
Education$11,401,438Environment$3,075,000Animals$3,006,056Community Improvement$200,000Science & Tech$50,000International$50,000Other$25,692Civil Rights$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $11,101,140 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $3,006,056 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $3,000,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $200,298 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKIDSMART INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $25,692 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHISPANIC LEADERS GROUP OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $20,000 over 1y, 50% of budget
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.

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.

World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
World Wide Technology FoundationMO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael & Quirsis Riney Family Fndn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael & Quirsis Riney Family Fndn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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