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Norman K Probstein Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Norman K Probstein Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$101kRecreation & Sports$17kHealth$17kPhilanthropy$13kEducation$8kYouth Development$6kAnimals$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$138k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$4,000
ELLIS FISCHEL SUMMER GALA$3,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $3k → 17%LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $5k → 11%ELLIS FISCHEL SUMMER GALA: $3k → 13%THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ST LOUIS: $500 → 21%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $250 → 17%JOHN BURROUGHS: $4k → 11%ELLIS FISCHEL SUMMER GALA: $3k → 13%CLOWDER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS: $4k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $5k → 21%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $3k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $3k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS: $3k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $3k → 21%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $3k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS: $2k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $3k → 21%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $1k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS: $2k → 11%FOREST PARK FOREVER: $1k → 21%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $20k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS: $2k → 11%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $5k → 21%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $18k → 21%LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 11%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $3k → 21%JEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $2k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $16k → 21%JOHN BURROUGHS: $1k → 11%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $2k → 21%WEBSTER UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $15k → 21%CRAFT ALLIANCE CENTER OF ART & DESIGN: $250 → 11%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $2k → 21%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $8k → 21%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $2k → 21%CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM: $5k → 21%ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $2k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE ST LOUIS: $1k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE ST LOUIS: $1k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE ST LOUIS: $500 → 21%ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $500 → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$165k · 9 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
9

Total granted

$165k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+154%
+12%

Still filing today

22%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • CA
    CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +36%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    7× · 2017–2024 · $18k
  • FP
    Forest Park Forever Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • LS
    LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +9%
  • WU
    Webster Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • CH
    CLOWDER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -27%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $81,500 · Arts & CultureCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUISLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $5,000 · Arts & CultureLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARKIndividual grant recipient: $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $14,000 · OtherST LOUIS ART MUSEUMJEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $12,500 · OtherJEWISH FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $7,500 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIELLIS FISCHEL SUMMER GALA: $6,000 · OtherELLIS FISCHEL SUMMER GALAELLIS FITCHEL CANCER CENTER: $6,000 · OtherELLIS FITCHEL CANCER CENTERPEDAL THE CAUSE ST LOUIS: $2,800 · Other+4 more: $3,250 · OtherForest Park Forever Inc: $17,000 · EnvironmentForest Par…Webster University: $5,000 · EducationCLOWDER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · AnimalsPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 · Health
Arts & Culture$86,500Other$70,050Environment$17,000Education$5,000Animals$5,000Health$3,250

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 budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $81,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWebster University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOWDER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
  • Who funds Webster University ↗
  • Who funds CLOWDER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Norman K Probstein Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman K Probstein Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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