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Nourishing-A Schnucks Foundation at a glance

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Nourishing-A Schnucks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
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.

Health$425kEducation$165kHuman Services$65kYouth Development$30kEmployment$20kCrime & Legal$15kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$225,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE STMT B$225,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $15k → 11%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 21%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $10k → 21%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$690k · 14 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$690k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+31%

Still filing today

86%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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

  • CG
    CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +73%
  • KI
    KIDSMART INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +153%
  • VP
    VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • RA
    Refuge and Restorationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +324%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF L'ARCHE ST LOUIS INCFRIENDS OF L'ARCHE ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Christopher House

Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…

Human Services
2
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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3
The Childrens School for Child-Centered Education Inc

To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.

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4
Smart Love Parenting Center

To provide a variety of programs in the chicago area to help children, parents, and adults achieve greater inner well-being, sustain closer relationships, and have more pleasurable family, school, and work lives.

Human Services
5
Chicago Education Partnership

To create a school that dramatically transforms the lives of k-8 students and prepares them for success in college and in life through: the delivery of a rigorous and personalized academic program, a focus on holistic education, and the…

Education
6
United Inner City Services Inc

Earlystart carries out its mission "building bridges. inspiring minds. impacting futures." through the earlystart child and family development centers. highly-trained faculty utilize a project-based curriculum in an arts-infused…

Human Services
7
Central City Cyberschool of Milwaukee Inc

A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future

Education
8
Grace Christian Academy St Louis

The mission of Grace Christian Academy is to first serve families and children by giving them a Biblically-based education centered on a growing relationship with Jesus Christ, imparting a Christian world view and emphasizing Godly…

Education
9
Siue Charter School

The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.

Education
10
Kidwatch Plus Inc

To offer educational programs and to provide quality care for children while their parents are working or attending school.

Human Services
11
Momentum Academy Inc

Momentum academy is an open enrollment public charter school. momentum academy pursues academic excellence in a safe, supportive and loving learning environment.

Education
12
Chicago Collegiate Inc

To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Npower Inc. 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

15 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. 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE STMT B: $425,000 · OtherSEE STMT BBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $20,000 · OtherCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationCITY GARDEN MONTE…KIDSMART INC: $25,000 · EducationKIDSMART INCCITY ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $20,000 · EducationPROGRESS IN EDUCA…Ranken Technical College: $15,000 · EducationRanken Technical …BOOKS FOR NEWBORNS INC: $5,000 · EducationVIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $20,000 · Human ServicesVIOLENCE P…SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE …Refuge and Restoration: $15,000 · Human ServicesRefuge and…THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE…KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNPOWER INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCASA OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $15,000 · Civil Rights
Other$465,000Education$115,000Human Services$65,000Youth Development$30,000Philanthropy$20,000Community Improvement$20,000Civil Rights$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIDSMART INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNPOWER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRefuge and Restoration: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRanken Technical College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOOKS FOR NEWBORNS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Employees Community F…St Louis Community Fo…The Bellwether Founda…Regional Business Cou…Brown Dana Charitable…Moneta Group Charitab…St Louis Community Fo…Mysun Charitable Foun…Pott FoundationTrio Foundation of St…
United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bellwether Foundation · Regional Business Council · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Mysun Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis

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 Nourishing-A Schnucks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nourishing-A Schnucks Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Nourishing-A Schnucks Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Nourishing-A Schnucks 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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