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Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$160kHealth$80kHuman Services$55kYouth Development$35kHousing & Shelter$15kFood & Nutrition$12kPhilanthropy$12kRecreation & Sports$9k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,791
Median grant
1
States reached
$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIPP ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$5,583
LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY$5,583
HOPE IGNITES$5,583
ST JOSEPH HEARING AND SPEECH$3,350
KINGDOM HOUSE OBA LIFEWISE STL$2,791
BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP FOUNDATION$2,791
MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF EASTERN MISSOUR$2,791
GRANT WOMEN & GIRL HYGIENE PRODUCTS$2,791
ARCHDIOCESAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS$2,791
SAINT MARTHAS HALL$2,791
YOUTH IN NEED$2,791
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS$2,791
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $4k → 16%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $5k → 5%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $7k → 11%YOUTH IN NEED: $3k → 5%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $5k → 5%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%COMMUNITY LIVING INC: $5k → 5%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 11%ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $3k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $3k → 11%HOPE IGNITES: $6k → 21%SAINT MARTHAS HALL: $3k → 21%ST MARTHAS HALL: $3k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%URBAN SPROUTS: $6k → 11%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.

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$315k · 22 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
10

Total granted

$315k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

91%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LF
    LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +149%
  • KS
    KIPP ST LOUIS
    5× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +133%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • US
    URBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +283%
  • CA
    CARE AND COUNSELING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -27%
  • TS
    THE SCHEIDEGGER FAMILY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Saint Louis Counseling Inc

The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…

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2
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
3
Larche St Louis

High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…

Health
4
St Patrick Center

St. patrick center transforms lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

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5
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
6
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…

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7
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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8
St Patrick Partnership Center

To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

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9
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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10
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
11
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
12
City Academy Inc

See schedule o.city academy transforms children, families and our community through exceptional education and bold expectations that empower children to overcome barriers.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Center-Marygrove and the most unlike its peers is Hope Ignites. 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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%31%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr17%31%35–55yr19%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%6%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%40%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr17%30%35–55yr19%13%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
14%
1,452/10,128

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 38 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KIPP ST LOUIS — $25,583 · OtherKIPP ST LOUISBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE — $12,000 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPECENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH — $11,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECHHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $7,500 · OtherHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLSCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES — $7,500 · OtherCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICESMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $6,291 · OtherCARE AND COUNSELING INC — $5,000 · OtherTHE SCHEIDEGGER FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $12,000 · OtherST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFOOD OUTREACH INC — $12,000 · OtherFOOD OUTREACH INCGRACE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 · Other+7 more — $22,612 · Other+7 moreTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $25,120 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATIONYOUTH IN NEED — $17,791 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEEDST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — $17,080 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR TH…COMMUNITY LIVING INC — $9,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY LIVING INCHOPE IGNITES — $5,583 · Human ServicesHOPE IGNITESURBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $5,500 · Human ServicesURBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELO…ST MARTHA'S HALL — $5,291 · Human ServicesST MARTHA'S HALL+1 more — $2,791 · Human ServicesHOME WORKS - THVP — $29,680 · EducationHOME WORKS - THVPTHE BIOME SCHOOL — $19,000 · EducationTHE BIOME SCHOOLLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $15,000 · EducationLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST L…LOGOS INC — $12,500 · EducationLOGOS INCLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $26,083 · Recreation & SportsMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $9,560 · HealthCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES — $8,000 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE — $3,000 · HealthBETHESDA HEALTH GROUP FOUNDATION INC — $2,791 · HealthPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $14,560 · Housing & ShelterKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $12,291 · Youth Development
Other$136,486Human Services$88,656Education$76,180Recreation & Sports$26,083Health$23,351Housing & Shelter$14,560Youth Development$12,291

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOME WORKS - THVP — $29,680 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $26,083 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS — $25,583 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $25,120 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIOME SCHOOL — $19,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED — $17,791 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF — $17,080 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $14,560 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOGOS INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $12,291 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $9,560 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING INC — $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES — $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $6,291 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE IGNITES — $5,583 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN SPROUTS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST MARTHA'S HALL — $5,291 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE AND COUNSELING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA HEALTH GROUP FOUNDATION INC — $2,791 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS — $2,791 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…Pott FoundationWorld Wide Technology…Berges Family Foundat…Norman J Stupp Founda…Youthbridge Community…Moneta Group Charitab…Centene Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO53.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Pott Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Centene 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 Olive Dempsey 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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