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Saint Charles Oktoberfest
Saint Charles Oktoberfest is dedicated to hosting an authentic style festival each year to showcase the german heritage in the saint louis region and midwest through cultural, culinary, historical, and entertainment displays.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $175,753 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $216,228 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,475 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CAPITOL LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION | $44,635 |
| SCB FOREVER INC | $21,745 |
| DUCHESNE ATHLETIC BOOSTER INC | $19,582 |
| CSTL BOOSTER CLUB | $15,070 |
| ST DOMINIC HIGH SCHOOL | $13,440 |
| ST CHARLES WEST HIGH SCHOOL | $13,110 |
| MISSOURI JAYCEES - ST CHARLES 059 | $12,471 |
| MIDLAND FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR BASEBALL INC | $10,451 |
| COTTLEVILLE WELDON SPRING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $9,471 |
| SAINT PETERS HOCKEY CLUB | $7,958 |
| DISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $7,820 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
Raise funds to aid in the athletic programs at the culbertson school
Support students coaches and athletic needs
Fundraiser and volunteer support for SCHS Baseball
Support student athletes and sports teams
Support Stoughton High School Atthletic teams and facilites
Support student athletics
To support all athletic and clubs at Standley Lake High School.
To support all athletic programs in the Hallsville Missouri Middle and High Schools
The organization raises money to help students of the cardington lincoln school district play sports. the booster rasies that money through fundraisers and the concession stand at sporting events.
Chaparral High School Boy's Basketball Booster Club is organized to support the athletes, parents, coaches, and administrative staff of The Chaparral High School Boys Basketball program by raising funds, conducting events, and recruiting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland Foundation for Amateur Baseball Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scb Forever Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 FIRST CAPITOL LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCB FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds Duchesne Athletic Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds Cstl Booster Club ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI JAYCEES-SAINT CHARLES 059 ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND FOUNDATION FOR AMATEUR BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds COTTLEVILLE WELDON SPRING CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds ST PETERS HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds DISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Saint Charles Oktoberfest 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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