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Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$974k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$974k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$2.8MEmployment$405kHuman Services$316kFood & Nutrition$236kYouth Development$43kHousing & Shelter$40kCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$973,721
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE STMT B$973,721
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $644k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $40k → 11%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $15k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $15k → 11%FEED MY PEOPLE: $35k → 11%FEED MY PEOPLE: $22k → 11%MERS MISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $265k → 21%FEED MY PEOPLE: $15k → 11%MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $140k → 21%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $25k → 11%KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $35k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $22k → 11%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 12 repeat orgs$627k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$3.3M
$627k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+9%

Still filing today

92%
71%

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
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MG
    MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $405k · revenue +20%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $90k · revenue +36%
  • FC
    FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $84k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • RH
    REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $34k
  • ME
    MISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -73%
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
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…

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2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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4
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.

Crime & Legal
5
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
6
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
7
Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services
8
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
9
Gateway Homeless Services Inc

To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…

Human Services
10
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
11
Affinia Healthcare

To provide high quality health care and exceptional service, while promoting healthy lifestyles.

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12
Casa of St Louis

Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; the most unlike its peers is Parents As Teachers National Center Inc. 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

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE STMT B: $2,282,027 · OtherSEE STMT BREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES: $400,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES+8 more: $372,500 · Other+8 moreMERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $405,000 · Human ServicesMERSMISSOURI GOODW…FEED MY PEOPLE: $72,000 · Human ServicesFEED MY PEOPLEJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $57,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERV…NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $55,000 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORN…KIDS WIN MISSOURI: $40,000 · Human ServicesKIDS WIN MISSOURI+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOOD OUTREACH INC: $72,000 · Food & NutritionPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthLA CASA DE SALUD: $10,000 · HealthINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS: $10,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUD: $10,000 · HealthMISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterENERGY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentWomen of Achievement: $15,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,054,527Human Services$644,000Food & Nutrition$72,000Health$55,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Youth Development$22,500Community Improvement$15,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $405,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $92,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $90,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $84,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE: $72,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC: $72,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $57,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetKIDS WIN MISSOURI: $40,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWomen of Achievement: $15,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CASA DE SALUD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENERGY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…Sam and Marilyn Fox F…Trio Foundation of St…Enterprise Holdings F…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Employees Community F…St Louis Philanthropi…Jefferson FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…
United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Jefferson Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to Mildred Herbert and Julian Simon Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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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