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Ruth M & Francis a Stroble Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Ruth M & Francis a Stroble Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$351k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$458kReligion$169kHuman Services$127kHealth$30kInternational$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $287,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $350,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $63,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$980k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. Genevieve Du Bois Church$51,900
Marian Middle School$40,000
Catholic Charities of St. Louis$35,000
St. Louis University$30,000
St. Joseph's Academy$28,000
Christian Brothers High School$25,000
Washington Univ School of Medicine$25,000
Jesuits Central & Southern Prov$15,000
Cardinal Glennon Hospital$10,000
Ronald McDonald House$10,000
Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet$10,000
Catholic Relief Services$5,000
Foster Adoptinve Care Coalition$2,000
Carmel of St. Jospeph$1,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$770k · 12 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
1

Total granted

$770k
$10k

Still filing today

42%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SG
    St. Genevieve Du Bois Church
    3× · 2022–2024 · $123k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +75%
  • SJ
    St. Joseph's Academy
    3× · 2022–2024 · $108k

Funded once

  • HH
    Haiti Health Promise
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St. Genevieve Du Bois Church: $123,250 · OtherSt. Genevieve Du Bois ChurchSt. Joseph's Academy: $108,000 · OtherSt. Joseph's AcademyChristian Brothers High School: $65,000 · OtherChristian Brothers High SchoolCardinal Glennon Hospital: $30,000 · OtherCardinal Glennon HospitalSISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELET: $30,000 · OtherSISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELETJesuits Central & Southern Prov: $15,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $21,500 · OtherST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $70,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOLFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationFONTBONNE UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $110,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARIT…
Other$407,750Education$285,000Human Services$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $70,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗

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…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community FoundationMO13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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 17 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $245k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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