· Private foundation
Robert J Trulaske Jr 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COCA - Center of Creative Arts | $450,000 |
| Great River Habitat Alliance | $250,000 |
| LEELANAU CONSERVANCY | $200,000 |
| ST LOUIS LIFE SCIENCES PROJECT | $165,000 |
| TOWER GROVE PARK | $150,000 |
| Historic Kirkwood Train Station Foundation | $119,000 |
| BEYOND HOUSING | $105,100 |
| Missouri River Relief | $80,000 |
| BUILD MISSOURI HEALTH (FOR PEACE PARK) | $70,000 |
| Great Rivers Greenway Foundation | $70,000 |
| ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS | $50,000 |
| Lutheran Development Mnt Pleasant | $50,000 |
| AMERICORPS | $30,000 |
| Fairgrounds Park for All | $25,000 |
| OPEN SPACE COUNCIL | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k 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
- SLST LOUIS LIFE SCIENCES PROJECT3× · 2022–2024 · $475k · revenue +352% · 34% of their budget
- GRGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE2× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +88%
- PFPlaces for People Incorporated2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SSSEED ST LOUISone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -27%
- LALandmarks Associationone grant, 2022 · $120k
- MAMISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUBone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +16%
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.
Founded in 1965, the Open Space Council works independently and collaboratively to conserve and sustain land, water and other natural resources throughout the St. Louis Region.
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.
Providing financial and volunteer support for parks in st charles county missouri.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Economic development.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
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…
The foundation engages in activities to preserve & memorialize the history and architecture of st. louis with particular focus on the bldg. occupied by the missouri athletic club.
Working in partnership with the City of Saint Paul's Great River Passage Initiative, the Great River Passage Conservancy leads advocacy and private fundraising efforts for capital projects and programs along Saint Paul's 17 miles of the…
To support and promote the facilities, programs, capital improvements, and resources of the st. louis county parks; to receive grants, endowments, and contributions; to support and promote volunteer organizations formed in support of the…
Serve the springfield area by building a trail system that connects and enhances our community. additional functions include education on active transportation and urban tree canopy enhancement and serving as a land trust for…
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is MindsEye Radio. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 85 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 ST LOUIS LIFE SCIENCES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SEED ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC KIRKWOOD TRAIN STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Victoria Mansion ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
- Who funds Places for People Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MindsEye Radio ↗
- Who funds FAIRGROUND PARK FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds MISSION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA ↗
- Who funds OZARK REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC DBA OZARK LAND TRUST ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electric · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Washington University
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 J Trulaske Jr 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.
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.
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