How much does Piasa Charitable Foundation give?

Piasa Charitable Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $202,850 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Piasa Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (50%), Health (13%), Human Services (7%).

Who are Piasa Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crisis Food Center Inc ($103k), Salvation Army ($55k), United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($55k).

Does Piasa Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Piasa Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Piasa Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, American Water Charitable Foundationinc, Jacoby Foundation.

Where is Piasa Charitable Foundation based?

Piasa Charitable Foundation is based in IL.

Piasa Charitable Foundation

Piasa Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Piasa Charitable Foundation

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.

$203k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$55k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$761kHealth$202kHuman Services$114kFood & Nutrition$113kEducation$103kYouth Development$67kAnimals$58kPublic Safety & Disaster$38kOther$0

02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $76k
$10k–50k4 grants · $72k
$50k–250k1 grant · $55k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS	$55,000
SAINT LOUIS ZOO	$30,000
RISING TOGETHER FOUNDATION	$20,000
CRISIS FOOD CENTER	$12,000
RIVERBEND HEAD START & FAMILY SERVICES	$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$6,000
THE AOPA FOUNDATION	$5,000
LEWIS AND CLARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE	$5,000
ALTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION	$5,000
CAMP NEW HOPE	$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$4,500
HUNT OF A LIFETIME FOUNDATION	$4,000
PARTNERS FOR PETS HUMANE SOCIETY	$4,000
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL	$3,500
SHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION	$3,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 50 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+45%

Still filing today

68%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

AE
ALTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +664%
CN
CAMP NEW HOPE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +24%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +125%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue -17%
VF
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue ×45
SH
SHRINERS HOSPITAL -ST LOUIS
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

Hospice of Southern Illinois Inc

Care to terminal patients/families

Human Services

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

St Luke's Health Foundation of Sioux City Iowa

To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.

—

Saint Xavier University

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…

Education

Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education

Aorn Foundation

To advance patient safety by supporting the nurses who make surgery safe through education, research, and patient safety initiatives.

Philanthropy

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation

To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of…

Health

United States Naval Institute

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.

—

Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—

The 100 Club of Illinois

The 100 club of illinois provides resources, several forms of financial support, access to training, and moral support to the families of first responders who have lost their lives in the line of duty and active duty first responders. all…

—

Oncology and Kids Inc

To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nature Institute. 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

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 93 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/61

Grantees still filing

42/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,084,700Human Services$121,600Health$103,500Philanthropy$96,000Education$79,815Animals$18,000Community Improvement$16,500

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.

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 Foundation IncMO21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · American Water Charitable Foundationinc · Jacoby Foundation · The Alton Foundation · Schrimpf Family Foundation · Alton Woman's Home Association · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · St Louis Community 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 Piasa Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Piasa Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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 Piasa Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Piasa Charitable Foundation 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.

Play a game based on Piasa’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home