· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PARAQUAD | $2,000 |
| ALMOST HOME | $2,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $2,000 |
| FRIZZY BY NATURE | $2,000 |
| MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS | $2,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR AAIR | $1,500 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| READY READERS | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE | $1,000 |
| ARTS FOR LIFE | $1,000 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| PARENTS AS TEACHERS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 65 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds SSP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTERPLUS ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S CHOIRS ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Room at the Inn ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds FLY NORTH THEATRICALS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Panda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Panda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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