Missouri · Private foundation
Mysun Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2022
- 44
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 6
- Total assets, FY2022
- $67M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 26% of the organizations Mysun Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.8M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $4.9M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $1,932,981 | 1 | 1% |
| Great Rivers Greenway Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $900,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Earthjustice | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Tower Grove Park Foundation | $363,000 | 3 | 8% |
| The Howard University | $357,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington University | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater St Louis Inc Foundation | $330,000 | 1 | 36% |
| Magnificent Missouri Inc | $225,000 | 3 | 25% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $225,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($318k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mysun Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Mysun Charitable Foundation
- How much does Mysun Charitable Foundation give?
- Mysun Charitable Foundation reported 44 itemized grants totaling $1,807,083, out of $1,917,083 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Mysun Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (19%), Education (15%), Community Improvement (8%).
- Who are Mysun Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation ($1.9M), Great Rivers Greenway Foundation ($1.0M), Forest Park Forever Inc ($900k).
- Does Mysun Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mysun Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mysun Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Commerce Bancshares Foundation, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mysun Charitable Foundation based?
- Mysun Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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