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Recovery St Louis

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.

$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$56kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$4kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$250Education$150Housing & Shelter$150Animals$120Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$247
Median grant
4
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARDINAL GLENNON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$5,000
PROUD ART LLC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,100
HANLEY FOUNDATION$1,000
THE NEXT STEP$781
GRATITUDE HOUSE$517
Individual grant recipient$247
GIRL SCOUTS$140
CHANGEORG$119
Individual grant recipient$100
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100
NINE PBS$75
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCATION$60
READATHON FUNDRAISER$50
02The need
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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 (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FERNHOUSE: $250 → 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
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
DC
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$62k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+18%

Still filing today

50%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $816 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TN
    THE NEXT STEP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +363%
  • HF
    HANLEY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • GH
    GRATITUDE HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $617 · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • HH
    HARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +7%
  • PA
    PROUD ART STL
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • N
    NCADA
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
2
Revive Inc

Empowering individuals on their journey to lasting recovery. our team of dedicated professionals offer a dynamic blend of therapeutic support and personal empowerment. we dont just offer recovery; we provide a roadmap to your vibrant…

Health
3
Gateway Rehabilitation Center

To help all affected by addictive disease to become healthy in body, mind, and spirit.

Health
4
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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5
The House of Hope Inc

House of hope's mission is to provide the tools to achieve recovery from addiction and address mental health issues while transforming lives, families and communities. house of hope provides hope for the future and healing to those in need…

Health
6
Hendricks House Inc

Hendricks house inc. provides residential halfway house addiction treatment to adult men and women. their four halfway houses serve as a healthy and therapeutic sober living environment which provides addiction and co- occurring…

Health
7
How Center

The H.O.W. Center provides a safe and structured living environment for individuals recovering from alcoholism and addiction while they gain the skills they need to live independently and successfully.

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8
Gosnold Inc

Gosnold, inc. was established for the rehabilitation of substance abusers and offers addiction and mental health treatment on an in-patient and out-patient basis.

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9
Sobriety House Inc

Sobriety house, inc. is a state licensed, nonprofit drug and alcohol treatment center dedicated to offering high quality and effective services through an extensive continuum of care to support clients in lifelong recovery, regardless of…

Health
10
Argus Community Inc

Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…

Health
11
Bridge House Corporation

The mission of bridge house-grace house is to provide gender-sensitive, long-term residential treatment to people who have become dependent on alcohol or drugs so that they may lead sober and productive lives. services are provided…

Health
12
Luminis Health Pathways Inc

To provide addiction treatment to our community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harris House Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARDINAL GLENNON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $15,000 · OtherCARDINAL GLENNON MEMORIAL HOSPITALPROUD ART LLC: $10,209 · OtherPROUD ART LLCIndividual grant recipient: $7,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE LINDELL CLUB: $5,060 · OtherTHE LINDELL CLUBHARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $4,250 · OtherHARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATIONPROUD ART STL: $2,115 · Other+18 more: $3,992 · Other+18 moreTHE NEXT STEP: $13,286 · EducationTHE NEXT STEP+1 more: $100 · EducationComprehensive Alcoholism Rehabilitation Programs: $6,700 · HealthComprehensi…GRATITUDE HOUSE INC: $617 · HealthGRATITUDE H…+5 more: $525 · Health+5 moreHANLEY FOUNDATION: $2,525 · PhilanthropyNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,175 · Public Safety & DisasterOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $512 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $155 · Arts & CultureTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC: $250 · Youth Development
Other$48,326Education$13,386Health$7,842Philanthropy$2,525Public Safety & Disaster$1,175Arts & Culture$667Youth Development$250

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 budgetTHE NEXT STEP: $13,286 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetComprehensive Alcoholism Rehabilitation Programs: $6,700 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION: $4,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY FOUNDATION: $2,525 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRATITUDE HOUSE INC: $617 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFERN HOUSE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $155 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE STL: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEATHER'S WAY: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY CHILDRENS CHARITY: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BIRD SANCTUARY: $20 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…World Wide Technology…Brown Dana Charitable…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Recovery St Louis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Recovery St Louis. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Fern House Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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

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How do I get to Recovery St Louis?

Find your warmest path to Recovery St Louis 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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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