· Private foundation
Norman J Stupp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $224k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $757k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY (ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY EYE INSTITUTE) | $50,000 |
| FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $35,000 |
| VISION FOR CHILDREN AT RISK INC | $25,000 |
| PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $25,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN DBA CASA OF ST LOUIS | $22,500 |
| EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC | $20,000 |
| MISSOURI COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK DBA MISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT | $20,000 |
| NINE NETWORK OF PUBLIC MEDIA DBA NINE PBS | $20,000 |
| YOUTH IN NEED | $20,000 |
| WYMAN CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER INC | $20,000 |
| PLACES FOR PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $987k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
94 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +6%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI5× · 2021–2025 · $118k · revenue +5%
- PPPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- MGMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +97%
- SLST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $20k
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION - GATEWAY REGIONone grant, 2022 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
Economic development.
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…
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…
Community Development and Community Center and social services
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
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…
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Activity Center and the most unlike its peers is Dream Builders 4 Equity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
107 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. 107 of the 129 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Places for People Incorporated ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VISION FOR CHILDREN AT RISK INC ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds SAFE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds COMPASS HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds The Tower Grove Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · World Wide Technology Foundation
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 Norman J Stupp Foundation 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.
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.