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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.8MEnvironment$1.3MArts & Culture$828kRecreation & Sports$484kScience & Tech$477kHousing & Shelter$323kHealth$280kCommunity Improvement$160kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $700k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Great Rivers Greenway Foundation$70,000
BUILD MISSOURI HEALTH (FOR PEACE PARK)$70,000
Lutheran Development Mnt Pleasant$50,000
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS$50,000
AMERICORPS$30,000
MISSOURI PRAIRIE FOUNDATION$25,000
OPEN SPACE COUNCIL$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MINDSEYE RADIO: $26k → 16%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

ME
MT
IL
MI
IN
MO
VA
TN
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 23 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
45

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+15%

Still filing today

57%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $851k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SL
    ST LOUIS LIFE SCIENCES PROJECT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $475k · revenue +352% · 34% of their budget
  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +88%
  • PF
    Places for People Incorporated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SS
    SEED ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -27%
  • LA
    Landmarks Association
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
  • MA
    MISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +16%
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
Open Space Cncl for the St Louis Region

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.

Environment
2
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
3
St Charles County Parks Foundation Inc

Providing financial and volunteer support for parks in st charles county missouri.

Recreation & Sports
4
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

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.

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5
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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6
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

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,…

Animals
7
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
8
Missouri Athletic Club Preservation Foundation

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.

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9
Great River Passage Conservancy

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…

Environment
10
St Louis County Parks Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
11
Ozark Greenways Inc

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…

Environment
12
St Louis Council of Construction Consumers

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis; 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.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
27/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN (SHAW NATURE RESERVE): $240,000 · OtherMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN (SHAW NATURE RESERVE…BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARK: $200,000 · OtherBOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF TOWER GROVE PARKBUILD MISSOURI HEALTH (FOR PEACE PARK): $140,000 · OtherBUILD MISSOURI HEALTH (FOR PEACE PARK)Landmarks Association: $120,000 · OtherLandmarks AssociationOpen Space Council: $103,000 · OtherOpen Space CouncilST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS: $100,000 · OtherST LOUIS COUNTY PARKSMISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB: $100,000 · OtherMISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB+47 more: $809,368 · Other+47 moreGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE: $255,000 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALL…LEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $250,000 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCYSEED ST LOUIS: $125,000 · EnvironmentSEED ST LOUISMissouri Prairie Foundation: $100,000 · EnvironmentMissouri Prairie Foundat…RIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF: $80,000 · EnvironmentRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A M…MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $50,000 · EnvironmentFOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI: $33,000 · Environment+6 more: $58,000 · Environment+6 moreCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $450,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATI…HISTORIC KIRKWOOD TRAIN STATION FOUNDATION: $119,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC KIRKWOO…Victoria Mansion: $60,000 · Arts & CultureVictoria MansionST LOUIS LIFE SCIENCES PROJECT: $475,000 · HealthST LOUIS LIFE…Places for People Incorporated: $34,792 · HealthPlaces for Pe…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthBEYOND HOUSING INC: $297,521 · Housing & ShelterGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ST LOUIS: $25,000 · Community ImprovementPARK CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 · Community ImprovementFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $35,000 · PhilanthropyMAC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,812,368Environment$951,000Arts & Culture$629,000Health$519,792Housing & Shelter$297,521Community Improvement$110,000Philanthropy$57,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LOUIS LIFE SCIENCES PROJECT: $475,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $450,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $297,521 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE: $255,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $250,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSEED ST LOUIS: $125,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHISTORIC KIRKWOOD TRAIN STATION FOUNDATION: $119,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetMISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMissouri Prairie Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF: $80,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVictoria Mansion: $60,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPlaces for People Incorporated: $34,792 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST RELEAF OF MISSOURI: $33,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMindsEye Radio: $26,460 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMISSION ST LOUIS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAIRGROUND PARK FOR ALL: $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOZARK REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC DBA OZARK LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA GOLF FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetMAC SPORTS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGLEN LAKE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARK CENTRAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $10,925 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Audubon Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlmost Home: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACRES Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF MACARTHUR BEACH STATE PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSUPER SAM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GREENS MARKET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRUSTIC ROOTS SANCTUARY CO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $1,500 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…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Trio Foundation of St…Ameren Charitable Tru…Edward Jones Foundati…The Bellwether Founda…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Pecha Family Foundati…The Nature ConservancyWashington University
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO44.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundation 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 81 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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