How much does Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation give?

Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $60,602 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Philanthropy (23%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis ($73k), Ready Readers ($18k), Central Reform Congregation ($17k).

Does Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Robert & Grace Brod Family 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 Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Trio Foundation of St Louis, St Louis Community Foundation.

Where is Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation based?

Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation is based in MO.

Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation

Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$61k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$16k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$134kPhilanthropy$101kArts & Culture$54kEducation$48kHuman Services$25kReligion$22kFood & Nutrition$18kEnvironment$6kOther$0

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $45k
$10k–50k1 grant · $16k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$912k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
UNBOUND	$1,500
ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER	$1,500
COLLEGE BOUND	$1,015

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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$327k · 61 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$327k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+14%

Still filing today

59%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CS
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS
8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +27%
RR
READY READERS
8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +203%
LS
LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK
7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +9%

Funded once

FC
FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +23%
KS
KIPP ST LOUISgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +65%
CH
COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -2%

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.

Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Webster University

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.

Education

Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

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…

Health

Chicago Public Education Fund

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.

Education

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 131 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)

79/80

Grantees still filing

53/80

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$149,153Philanthropy$96,818Health$90,509Arts & Culture$36,261Human Services$31,663Education$27,589International$13,024

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 IncMO41.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Grace Brod Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

19report 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

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.

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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