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Pershing Charitable Trust at a glance

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Pershing Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$5.9MEducation$5.8MHealth$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.8MCrime & Legal$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $920k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$600,000
EPSISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL$400,000
CONCORDANCE$400,000
ACCESS ACADEMIES$300,000
NINE PBS$150,000
STL UNIVERSITY FBO VACCINE EDUCATION$150,000
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY RISING TEACHERS PROGRAM$100,000
BEYOND HOUSING INC$100,000
INVEST STL$100,000
GREATER ST LOUIS INC$100,000
PETER AND PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN STL$100,000
THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF STL$100,000
DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER$100,000
METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $120k → 8%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $30k → 11%Tgthr LLC: $8k → 12%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $52k → 8%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $25k → 11%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $35k → 8%Missouri Veterans Endeavor: $25k → 11%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $26k → 8%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $25k → 11%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $95k → 8%Missouri Veterans Endeavor: $25k → 11%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $15k → 21%HOME SWEET HOME: $15k → 11%Home Sweet Home: $15k → 11%FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC: $40k → 21%Flance Early Learning Center: $40k → 21%VILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%Flance Early Learning Center: $40k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $5k → 21%INTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM: $50k → 11%International Mentoring Program: $25k → 11%International Mentoring Program: $25k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES: $15k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $15k → 11%Promise Community Homes: $15k → 11%Rainbow Village Properties: $15k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $10k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $10k → 11%FATHERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER: $25k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $25k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%St Louis ARC: $5k → 11%St Louis ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 11%St Louis Area Diaper Bank: $5k → 11%BUILD MISSOURI HEALTH: $65k → 21%St Louis Area Diaper Bank: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
CO
MO
VA
AR
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 101 repeat orgs$8.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
61

Total granted

$21M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+5%

Still filing today

82%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • GS
    GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $879k · revenue +23%
  • BH
    BEYOND HOUSING INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $850k · revenue +45%
  • DD
    DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2025 · $700k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • AS
    ART ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -1%
  • RA
    Refuge and Restorationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +324% · 43% of their budget
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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.

1
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
2
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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3
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
4
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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5
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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…

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6
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
7
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

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.

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8
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

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

Human Services
9
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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10
Techstl

The TechSTL Council serves as the St Louis champion for technology by strategically and equitably investing in regional collaboration to advance tech workforce development and retention, along with spurring innovation opportunities in…

Community Improvement
11
The Louisville Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is A T Still University of Health Sciences. 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

115 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. 115 of the 186 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/115
Grantees still filing
73/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherBEYOND HOUSING INC: $850,000 · OtherBEYOND HOUSING INCDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $700,000 · OtherDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER+112 more: $10,226,708 · Other+112 moreSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,600,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY …ART ST LOUIS: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureART ST LOUISST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $285,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $225,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $500,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreACCESS ACADEMIES: $2,200,000 · EducationACCESS ACADEMIESCITY ACADEMY INC: $433,900 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCEDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $180,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $165,000 · Education+21 more: $1,259,850 · Education+21 moreGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIV…GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $879,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER S…MISSION REALTY ADVISORS: $134,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION R…ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $129,500 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST LOUIS INC: $100,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $98,500 · Community ImprovementCONCORDANCE: $1,600,000 · Crime & LegalARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $300,000 · Crime & LegalRefuge and Restoration: $500,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $328,100 · Human ServicesMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $130,000 · Human ServicesFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $120,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesBUILD MISSOURI HEALTH: $65,000 · Human Services+8 more: $193,250 · Human ServicesST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $650,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUD: $400,000 · HealthASSISI HOUSE: $133,500 · HealthQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $130,000 · HealthThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $67,000 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $60,000 · Health+2 more: $60,000 · Health
Other$12,276,708Arts & Culture$5,560,500Education$4,238,750Community Improvement$2,441,000Crime & Legal$1,900,000Human Services$1,516,350Health$1,500,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,600,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetACCESS ACADEMIES: $2,200,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $1,600,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $879,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $850,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $700,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRefuge and Restoration: $500,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $433,900 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $400,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $400,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $375,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $328,100 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCARESTL HEALTH: $300,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $300,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $300,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $285,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $277,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $230,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $225,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAffinia Healthcare: $225,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS: $220,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS: $210,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $185,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDEN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $180,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $165,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $150,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $150,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUpstream Theater: $135,500 over 2y, 37% of budgetMISSION REALTY ADVISORS: $134,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetASSISI HOUSE: $133,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $130,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $129,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC: $125,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHOME WORKS - THVP: $125,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetAlmost Home Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $120,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $120,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMAIN STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $113,000 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Centene FoundationMoneta Group Charitab…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Trio Foundation of St…Pott FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO115.3× affinity67 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 · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Pershing Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pershing Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pershing Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Pershing Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 186 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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