· Private foundation
Robert & Grace Brod Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS | $15,708 |
| READY READERS | $6,180 |
| CENTRAL REFORM CONGREGATION | $3,600 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,049 |
| WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT | $2,510 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $2,482 |
| LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK | $2,060 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,800 |
| THE REDFORD CENTER | $1,578 |
| THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION | $1,551 |
| ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER | $1,500 |
| UNBOUND | $1,500 |
| COLLEGE BOUND | $1,015 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +27%
- RRREADY READERS8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +203%
- LSLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +23%
- GCGATEWAY CHILDRENS CHARITYone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -59%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURIone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -2%
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.
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…
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
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…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Worldwide Friends Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 131 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 Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds The New City School Inc ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINEMA ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE STL ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOMELESS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Bellwether Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones 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 Robert & Grace Brod Family 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.