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· Public charity

Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation

To educate, organize, and advocate in defense of Missouris people and their environment.

$194k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$251kHuman Services$172kCivil Rights$123kCommunity Improvement$118kArts & Culture$51kEnvironment$15kHealth$14kInternational$7k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $188,728, the rows itemized in this filing. The $193,565 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,837 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
$51,220
Median grant
1
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Just Moms STL$94,560
Network for Stong Communities Collaborative Resources$51,220
Gateway Sustainable Farmers Alliance$42,948
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 (FY22–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Gateway Region (Emerson) YMCA: $7k → 21%Gateway Region (Emerson) YMCA: $7k → 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$414k · 4 repeat orgs$337k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$414k
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEmploymentEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BL
    Blackpeoplewhohike LLC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $206k
  • JM
    JUST MOMS STL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $173k
  • BW
    Be Well Cafe
    2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • AF
    AGRICULTURE FOR COMMUNITY RESTORATION ECONOMIC JUSTICE SUSTA
    one grant, 2023 · $102k · 80% of their budget
  • NR
    NEW ROOTS URBAN FARM
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +25%
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
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
2
Black Seeds

prove asset to organic food

Food & Nutrition
3
Syracuse Grows Inc

A grassroots network that cultivates food justice through advocacy, education, and resources in support of urban food production.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Works

Food Works is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a sustainable food economy in Southern Illinois. Through farmer training and consumer education, Food Works promotes long-term farming networks that create healthy soils,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley
Food & Nutrition
6
Columbia Farmers Market Inc

The mission of Columbia Farmers Market is to provide a space for our vibrant community of growers, producers, and makers by supporting, educating, and expanding sustainable Mid-Missouri agriculture. By

Food & Nutrition
7
Healthy Harvest Community Garden
Environment
8
Broad River Community Market

To create a thriving, equitable food system by working with local farms to provide crucial access to fresh produce to food insecure people in Cleveland County.

Food & Nutrition
9
Impact Oakland Now
Community Improvement
10
Propel Kitchens

To use nutrition and food training to enable St Louis communities to combat persistent health and economic inequities.

Food & Nutrition
11
Chicago's Green City Market Program

Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.

Food & Nutrition
12
St Louis Earth Day

To inspire and mobilize a collaborative movement towards an equitable and environmentally sustainable St Louis region every day.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Area Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is A Red Circle. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Blackpeoplewhohike LLC: $206,080 · OtherBlackpeoplewhohike LLCJUST MOMS STL: $172,651 · OtherJUST MOMS STL+3 more: $21,000 · OtherAGRICULTURE FOR COMMUNITY RESTORATION ECONOMIC JUSTICE SUSTA: $102,049 · Food & NutritionAGRICULTURE FOR COMMUNITY RESTORA…NEW ROOTS URBAN FARM: $50,086 · Food & NutritionNEW ROOTS URBAN FARMGATEWAY SUSTAINABLE FARMERS ALLIANCE: $42,948 · Food & NutritionGATEWAY SUSTAINABLE FARMERS ALLIA…OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $14,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC+2 more: $14,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 moreNSC COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES: $51,220 · Arts & CultureBe Well Cafe: $21,000 · EmploymentA RED CIRCLE: $14,000 · EducationTHE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION: $14,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY RESPONSE: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $14,000 · Human Services
Other$399,731Food & Nutrition$223,083Arts & Culture$51,220Employment$21,000Education$14,000Health$14,000Youth Development$14,000Human Services$14,000

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 budgetAGRICULTURE FOR COMMUNITY RESTORATION ECONOMIC JUSTICE SUSTA: $102,049 over 1y, 80% of budgetGATEWAY SUSTAINABLE FARMERS ALLIANCE: $42,948 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBe Well Cafe: $21,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA RED CIRCLE: $14,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION: $14,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESPONSE: $14,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GREENS MARKET INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN HARVEST STL: $7,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…J R Albert FoundationRegional Business Cou…Trio Foundation of St…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · J R Albert Foundation · Regional Business Council · Trio Foundation of St Louis · 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 Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's 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
    3report 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation 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 17 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 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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