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Mission Free School of St Louis Dba St Louis Unitarian Fdn for Children

The school's primary purpose is to assist programs that benefit underprivileged children.

$291k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$701kYouth Development$132kCivil Rights$104kHealth$34kOther$633k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$22,500
Median grant
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER$46,200
NURSES FOR NEWBORNS$24,100
ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY$23,600
GIRLS INC$23,300
KIDS IN THE MIDDLE$23,300
FAMILY FORWARD$23,100
ST LOUIS ARC$22,500
SPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING$20,900
EPWORTH CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES$20,300
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER$19,300
ASHREI FOUNDATION$16,200
CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH$14,000
THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE$14,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 15 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$1.6M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+139%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • SE
    SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $264k · revenue +62%
  • NF
    NURSES FOR NEWBORNS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $137k · revenue +16%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +139%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

5
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
6
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

7
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

8
Special Olympics Missouri Inc

Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.

9
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
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
Behavioral Health Network of Greater St

Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.

Health
12
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Chads Coalition for Mental Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $263,800 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $136,600 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORNSST LOUIS ARC INC — $127,400 · Human ServicesST LOUIS ARC INCST MARTHA'S HALL — $72,400 · Human ServicesST MARTHA'S HALLPROMO FUND — $40,200 · Human ServicesPROMO FUNDTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $34,400 · Human Services+2 more — $26,200 · Human ServicesST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $133,600 · OtherST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERYKIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC — $131,750 · OtherKIDS IN THE MIDDLE INCFAMILY FORWARD — $130,600 · OtherFAMILY FORWARDEPWORTH CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES — $101,100 · OtherEPWORTH CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICESCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $92,500 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIPAYBACK INC — $43,500 · OtherPAYBACK INCGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $131,750 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC…SPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING INC — $104,200 · Civil RightsCHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $34,400 · Health
Human Services$701,000Other$633,050Youth Development$131,750Civil Rights$104,200Health$34,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $263,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $136,600 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $133,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $131,750 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC — $131,750 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC — $127,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING INC — $104,200 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetST MARTHA'S HALL — $72,400 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPROMO FUND — $40,200 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $34,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $34,400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
  • Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS
  • Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC
  • Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING INC
  • Who funds ST MARTHA'S HALL
  • Who funds PROMO FUND
  • Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE
  • Who funds Ashrei Foundation
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO25.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

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 Mission Free School of St Louis Dba St Louis Unitarian Fdn for Children 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mission Free School of St Louis Dba St Louis Unitarian Fdn for Children?

    Find your warmest path to Mission Free School of St Louis Dba St Louis Unitarian Fdn for Children 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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