· Private foundation
Panda Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FAMILY FORWARD | $3,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $2,000 |
| FRIZZY BY NATURE | $2,000 |
| ALMOST HOME | $2,000 |
| MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| PARAQUAD | $2,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR AAIR | $1,500 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $1,000 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| PARENTS AS TEACHERS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +2%
- RRREADY READERS8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +156%
- PAPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -20%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%- SISSP INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +475%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Activity Center and the most unlike its peers is Fly North Theatricals. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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. 46 of the 65 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds SSP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Room at the Inn ↗
- Who funds FLY NORTH THEATRICALS ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Norman J Stupp 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 Panda Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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