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Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
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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 (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 its 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%ST MARTHAS HALL: $3k → 11%SAINT MARTHAS HALL: $3k → 21%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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

+25%
+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

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Human ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • 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%
  • GP
    GRACE'S PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +26%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Center-Marygrove; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & SPEECHCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES: $7,500 · OtherCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICESHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $7,500 · OtherHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLSMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $6,291 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · OtherTHE SCHEIDEGGER FAMILY CENTER: $5,000 · OtherCARE AND COUNSELING INC: $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 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 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, 1.6% 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 budgetGRACE'S PLACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCARE AND COUNSELING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $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
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.

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

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 Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust. 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%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
    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 38 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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