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Pershing Place 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $50,300 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS | $20,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $3,100 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $1,200 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOGARDUS PLAZA | $1,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS | $1,000 |
| BUILDING FUTURES | $1,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,000 |
| MUSIC BOOSTERS OF OWATONNA | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of your 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +44%- CICENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF5× · 2019–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +1%
- TNThe New City School Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +52%
- MFMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -4%
- SLSAINT LOUIS STORY STITCHERS ARTIST COLLECTIVEone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -36%
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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 sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.
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.
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
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,…
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…
Cinema st. louis engages the st. louis region through educational programs, cultural connectivity, and curated film exhibitions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Meds & Food for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 21. 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 — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds The New City School Inc ↗
- Who funds METRO THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS STORY STITCHERS ARTIST COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOGARDUS PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds Building Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MAGNIFICENT MISSOURI 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 · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · St Louis Community 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 Pershing Place 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.
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