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Olin Corporation Charitable Trust

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k
Granted FY2020
41
Grants FY2020
13
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k36 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $198k
$2,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLIN CORPORATION$198,058
ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FDN$10,000
UNITED WAY OF OXFORD AND$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ARKANSAS$10,000
RIVER VALLEY UNITED WAY INC$10,000
MISSISSIPPI SOCIETY FOR$7,500
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,000
CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC$5,000
AMERICAN NATL RED CROSS$5,000
Crawford Ausable Excellence Fdn$5,000
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
HOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$5,000
MCLAW SCHOOL OF MINES FDN$5,000
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%SEMPER FI SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS: $3k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

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Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
2
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…

3
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
4
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
5
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
6
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
7
Southwestern Law School

For more than a century, southwestern has educated lawyers ready to serve clients, the profession, and our society with excellence. we empower students to reach their potential. we cultivate inclusion and belonging. we promote equity and…

Education
8
Columbia College

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

Education
9
Mount Saint Mary's University Inc

As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.

Education
10
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
11
Lsu Alumni Association

The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…

12
University of Sioux Falls

The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Science Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mccaw School of Mines Foundation. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public University Foundatio…Homeless Services & ShelterYouth Development CentersVeteran Support ServicesYouth Sports Booster Organi…Classical Music EnsemblesCommunity Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-8 Schools
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 70 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%5%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr24%62%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%4%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr24%55%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%0/25
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,466

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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OLIN CORPORATION — $198,058 · OtherOLIN CORPORATIONBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ARKANSAS — $10,000 · OtherRIVER VALLEY UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF OXFORD AND — $10,000 · Other+20 more — $65,685 · Other+20 moreSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $7,500 · EducationMCCAW SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,500 · EducationLake Forest College — $2,500 · EducationVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $990 · Education+2 more — $1,250 · EducationST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Science & TechLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 · Human ServicesSemper Fi Society of St Louis — $2,500 · Human ServicesHOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $1,433 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $1,168 · Arts & Culture
Other$293,743Education$22,740Science & Tech$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,000Human Services$7,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Arts & Culture$2,601

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 budgetST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCCAW SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSISSIPPI INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLACKBURN UNIVERSITY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi Society of St Louis — $2,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLake Forest College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH MISSISSIPPI INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $1,433 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $1,168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $990 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBucknell University — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION — $185 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Olin Corporation Charitable FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Olin Corporation Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Olin Corporation Charitable Trust 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 40 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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