Arts & Culture$20MEducation$571kCivil Rights$336kHuman Services$333kCommunity Improvement$306kPhilanthropy$265kEnvironment$259kYouth Development$252kHousing & Shelter$80kOther$7.0M

02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 166 grants below total $8,234,270 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,247,052 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,012,782 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k41 grants · $317k
$10k–50k102 grants · $2.3M
$50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
$250k+10 grants · $4.5M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONTINUITY	$600,000
ST LOUIS DANCE THEATER	$600,000
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM	$500,000
THE MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS	$500,000
ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE	$500,000
ST LOUIS BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY	$500,000
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION	$500,000
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$300,000
ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION	$300,000
COUNTERPUBLIC	$250,000
EXPLORE ST LOUIS	$150,000
NORTH ST LOUIS ARTS COUNCIL	$100,513
OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS	$100,000
CINEMA ST LOUIS	$100,000
STAGES ST LOUIS	$80,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$27M · 186 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

186 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

186

Total granted

$27M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

Still filing today

80%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

SL
SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +63%
CA
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +36%
TS
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +34%

Funded once

WL
WERQFEST LLC
one grant, 2023 · $100k
TB
THE BUTLER GROUP
one grant, 2023 · $75k
MA
Mid-America Arts Alliance
one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -55%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission

As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.

Arts & Culture

Greater St Louis Artists

To bring art to the public and support art education

Arts & Culture

Edwardsville Opera Festival

Our mission is to develop an arts organization for the benefit of Edwardsville, IL and the St. Louis Metro-East community with the goals of providing musical excellence, educational outreach, community development, an artistic platform and…

Arts & Culture

Constellation Performing Arts

Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.

Arts & Culture

Kansas City Public Theatre

Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…

Arts & Culture

Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture

Chamber Opera of Chicago

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State of the Arts Productions

Arts & Culture

Southwest Washington Center for the Arts

Philanthropy

Confluence Chamber Orchestra

Confluence Chamber Orchestra is a multi generational amateur string orchestra that provides free educational concerts in the Saint Louis area.

Arts & Culture

Connect2Culture

Connect2Culture strives to enrich the region by "igniting a passion for the arts, culture, and entertainment" as Joplin's community arts agency and a presenter of exceptional performances. See Schedule O for more information.

Arts & Culture

Kc Fringe Festival Inc

Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Dance Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Dunn Memorials. 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 23 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%10/285

the rest of the field

15%

1,444/9,872

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.

04the grantee network

214 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. 214 of the 285 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

201/214

Grantees still filing

122/214

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$20,178,141Other$6,909,036Education$483,322Civil Rights$335,916Community Improvement$273,000Human Services$260,500Philanthropy$247,098

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.

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.

St Louis Community FoundationMO102× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council · Edward Jones Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable 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 Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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

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.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines