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Mysun Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2022
43
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$3.1MEducation$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.3MRecreation & Sports$1.3MYouth Development$280kEmployment$247kHuman Services$233kFood & Nutrition$155kOther$0
02FY2022 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 43 grants below total $1,757,083 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,917,083 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $160,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $511k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $916k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forest Park Forever Inc.$300,000
Earthjustice$125,000
Washington University$100,000
Missouri Botanical Garden$75,000
Magnificent Missouri Inc.$75,000
The Tower Grove Park Foundation$75,000
National Audubon Society Inc.$75,000
The Tower Grove Park Foundation$71,000
Advance A Non Profit Corporation$60,000
Howard University$60,000
World Central Kitchen Incorporated$50,000
University City Childrens Center$50,000
Bridgercare$50,000
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Fdn$50,000
Jefferson College Foundation Inc$40,000
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 31 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
21

Total granted

$4.9M
$4.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+45%

Still filing today

90%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationEnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FP
    Forest Park Forever Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $900k · revenue +137%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $475k · revenue +16%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $358k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.9M · revenue +41%
  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -60%
  • GS
    GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $330k · revenue +899% · 36% of their budget

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
Columbia College

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

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Explorer West an Independent Middle School

We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.

Education
4
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
5
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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6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
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
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
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
11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Opportunity Trust D/B/a Zest Education and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Advocacy and …College Foundation SupportFood Pantries and AssistancePregnancy Support CentersCommunity Arts CentersDomestic Violence and Sexua…Community FoundationsUrban Agriculture EducationGovernment Accountability &…Education Equity InitiativesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Charter and Independent Sch…Early Childhood Care Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%18%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr24%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr16%18%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr16%45%35–55yr24%22%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,435

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

54 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 61 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,932,981 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONForest Park Forever Inc — $900,000 · EnvironmentForest Park Forever IncEARTHJUSTICE — $475,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $225,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEESMAGNIFICENT MISSOURI INC — $225,000 · EnvironmentMAGNIFICENT MISSOURI INC+7 more — $335,500 · Environment+7 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $357,500 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $350,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYADVANCE — $200,000 · EducationADVANCECITY ACADEMY INC — $168,570 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCUniversity of Miami — $160,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiRanken Technical College — $120,000 · EducationRanken Technical Colle…PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC — $95,000 · EducationCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $95,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $76,000 · EducationMontana State University Foundation Inc — $70,000 · Education+4 more — $170,000 · Education+4 moreThe Tower Grove Park Foundation — $363,000 · OtherThe Tower Grove Park …UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $195,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY CITY CHILD…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $166,666 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVER…National Audubon Society Inc. — $150,000 · OtherNational Audubon Soci…AIM HIGH ST LOUIS — $105,000 · OtherAIM HIGH ST LOUISHRDC — $88,333 · OtherBRIDGERCARE — $85,000 · OtherJEFFERSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · OtherTHRIVE INC — $65,000 · OtherVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $60,000 · Other+18 more — $399,333 · Other+18 moreGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIVERS GR…GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION — $330,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST LOUI…STL YOUTH JOBS — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $80,000 · PhilanthropyONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $27,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $95,000 · Human Services
Environment$4,093,481Education$1,862,070Other$1,757,332Community Improvement$1,330,000Youth Development$180,000Philanthropy$107,000Human Services$95,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,932,981 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc — $900,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $475,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation — $363,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $357,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION — $330,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAGNIFICENT MISSOURI INC — $225,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetADVANCE — $200,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $195,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC — $168,570 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEED ST LOUIS — $135,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetRanken Technical College — $120,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAIM HIGH ST LOUIS — $105,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSTL YOUTH JOBS — $100,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $95,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC — $95,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $95,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRIDGERCARE — $85,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJEFFERSON COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $80,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $76,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI CONSERVATION HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMontana State University Foundation Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $60,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE — $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGallatin Valley Farm to School — $20,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetWest End School Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD CARE CONNECTIONS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Harbors Beaches and Parks Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetHAVEN — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…One Valley Community …The Bellwether Founda…Regional Business Cou…William T Kemper Foun…Youthbridge Community…Montana Community Fou…Employees Community F…Bozeman Deaconess Hea…
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO30.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Regional Business Council · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mysun Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mysun Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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