· Private foundation
Pecha Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READY READERS | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GATEWAY REGION YMCA | $4,000 |
| ALVIN J SITEMAN CANCER CENTER | $3,500 |
| CASA DE SALUD | $3,000 |
| CASA ST LOUIS | $3,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE STL | $2,000 |
| SCO FAMILY OF SERVICES RESIDENTAL TREATMENT FACILITY | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $1,500 |
| RIPON COLLEGE | $1,250 |
| PLATTE COUNTRY COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,100 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $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 (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- RRREADY READERS8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +203%
- COCASA OF ST LOUIS7× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +25%
- GRGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS VCP TINY HOUSESone grant, 2020 · $3k
- SLST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -11%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +24%
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.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Economic development.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
The corporation exists to provide pro bono (free) mediation and other dispute resolution services to communities in need, and any other charitable purpose allowed under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended.
Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Kwame 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.
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 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 216 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 READY READERS ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RIPON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds SPROG INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY LIVING 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 · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Tsf
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 Pecha Family Foundation 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.