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Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$113k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$73kHuman Services$54kAnimals$31kCrime & Legal$23kArts & Culture$16kPublic Benefit$15kEducation$13kPhilanthropy$12kYouth Development$5kOther$89k
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
$317
Median grant
5
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Camp Milton$16,749
The Little Bit Foundation$16,749
Happy Hooves Equine Rescue$16,749
Songs4Soldiers$14,590
Legal Aid of Western Missouri$14,590
Dogs for Our Brave$14,590
Saint Louis Community Foundation$3,393
Susan G Komen Foundation$2,740
Association of Legal Administrators$2,115
Saint Louis Senior Dog Project$1,760
Canine Companions$1,373
Families at Ease$1,203
Ronald McDonald House$768
Annies Hope$500
Saint Louis Senior Dog Project$318
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM: $1k → 14%Youth In Need: $250 → 5%BUTTERFLY HAVEN: $250 → 11%Youth In Need: $250 → 5%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $1k → 11%PROJECT COMPASSION: $250 → 16%HOME SWEET HOME: $694 → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $250 → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $250 → 11%UPLIFT ORGANIZATION: $10k → 15%HOME SWEET HOME: $250 → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%THE ILLINOIS CENTER FOR AUTISM: $250 → 16%FOSTER TOGETHER: $8k → 9%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $10k → 12%The Little Bit Foundation: $17k → 11%THE BUDDY FUND: $250 → 21%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $250 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $250 → 11%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
OH
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
SC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$142k · 21 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
81

Total granted

$142k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+19%

Still filing today

71%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TL
    THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +0%
  • L
    LOVEU2PIECES
    3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +106%
  • TB
    THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS
    2× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • RR
    Randy's Rescue Ranch
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TS
    THE STORK FOUNDATION FOR INFERTILITY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • GY
    GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Stray Rescue of St Louis

To rescue stray animals in need of medical attention, restore them to health, and place them in homes.

Animals
2
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
3
Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals
4
House Everyone Stl

Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.

Housing & Shelter
5
Missouri German Shepherd Rescue

We are a dog rescue organization dedicated to saving homeless, abused and neglected german shepherds and mixes, and to preventing homelessness and cruelty to animals.

Animals
6
Even Chance St Louis

To promote the welfare of animals and to operate as an animal rescue organization.

Animals
7
Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/a Pet Resource Center of Kansas City

To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.

Animals
8
Felines Inc

Providing a safe and loving shelter to cats and dogs until their permanent adoptive home is found.

Animals
9
Open Door Animal Sanctuary

The mission of Open Door Animal Sanctuary is to provide homeless cats and dogs with highest quality of life and a second chance to find a forever family. Open door is currently one of the largest no-kill shelters in the Greater St. Louis…

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10
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
11
Casa of St Louis

Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…

Civil Rights
12
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Scott Harris Oliphant Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHospital Health SystemsRegional Economic Developme…Member Recreation ClubsPerforming Arts Organizatio…School Parent OrganizationsCollege Prep Charter SchoolsEducation Funding Foundatio…Faith-Based Senior HousingVulnerable Populations Supp…Food Assistance ProgramsAnimal Rescue and Shelter
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr13%10%5–10yr16%27%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr23%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%20%5–10yr16%35%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr23%15%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/91
the rest of the field
14%
2,868/20,995

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.

04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 121 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/83
Grantees still filing
59/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAPPY HOOVES EQUINE RESCUE — $18,627 · OtherHAPPY HOOVES EQUINE RESCUETHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $10,550 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIR…Randy's Rescue Ranch — $10,300 · OtherRandy's Rescue RanchANNIE'S HOPE — $9,000 · OtherANNIE'S HOPEMOMS ON A MISSION — $8,500 · OtherMOMS ON A MISSIONAssociation of Legal Administrators — $5,416 · OtherWONDERSCOPE INC — $10,250 · OtherWONDERSCOPE INCSWING FORE HOPE — $7,845 · OtherSWING FORE HOPE+62 more — $37,852 · Other+62 moreCAMP MILTON — $16,749 · HealthCAMP MILTONLOVEU2PIECES — $10,750 · HealthLOVEU2PIECESCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $10,550 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIO…THE STORK FOUNDATION FOR INFERTILITY — $10,000 · HealthTHE STORK FOUNDATION FOR …TATA SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthTATA SISTERHOOD FOUNDATIO…BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC — $8,500 · HealthBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOO…The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,740 · Health+9 more — $4,141 · Health+9 moreTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $16,999 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOU…GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS — $10,000 · Human ServicesGOT YOUR SIX SUPPO…UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT ORGANIZATIO…FOSTER TOGETHER — $7,845 · Human ServicesFOSTER TOGETHER+14 more — $9,571 · Human Services+14 moreGATEWAY PET GUARDIANS — $8,660 · AnimalsGATEWAY PE…PARTNERS FOR PETS HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,500 · AnimalsPARTNERS F…Always & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary — $7,846 · AnimalsAlways & F…SAINT LOUIS SENIOR DOG PROJECT — $2,328 · AnimalsSAINT LOUI…WAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $1,600 · Animals+4 more — $1,845 · Animals+4 moreLegal Aid of Western Missouri — $14,590 · Crime & LegalTEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY — $8,750 · Crime & LegalSONGS4SOLDIERS NFP — $14,840 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS STATE POLICE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $674 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $750 · Arts & CultureDogs For Our Brave Inc — $15,157 · Public Benefit
Other$118,340Health$73,430Human Services$54,415Animals$30,779Crime & Legal$23,340Arts & Culture$16,264Public Benefit$15,157

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $16,999 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSONGS4SOLDIERS NFP — $14,840 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVEU2PIECES — $10,750 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $10,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $10,550 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRandy's Rescue Ranch — $10,300 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC — $10,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE STORK FOUNDATION FOR INFERTILITY — $10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTATA SISTERHOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTEEN COURT FOUNDATION OF ST CLAIR COUNTY — $8,750 over 2y, 21% of budgetGATEWAY PET GUARDIANS — $8,660 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PETS HUMANE SOCIETY — $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC — $8,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary — $7,846 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER TOGETHER — $7,845 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSWING FORE HOPE — $7,845 over 1y, 29% of budgetMOUNTAIN WAYS INC — $3,180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,740 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDWARDSVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SENIOR DOG PROJECT — $2,328 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COVERING HOUSE — $1,680 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC — $1,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME — $1,444 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University — $1,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $1,231 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $1,177 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBack to Play — $1,086 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDefenders of Freedom — $1,080 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLydia's House Inc — $856 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ANIMAL RESCUES — $796 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM ACTIVITIES FOR SPECIAL KIDS INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS STATE POLICE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $674 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADY READERS — $630 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $576 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $410 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION — $319 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUTTERFLY HAVEN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMARION MEDICAL MISSION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANGEL BAND PROJECT — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUDDY FUND — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALCOHOLIC REHABILITATION COMMUNITY HOME — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…Edward Jones Foundati…Moneta Group Charitab…Pott FoundationJefferson FoundationYouthbridge Community…Veterans United Found…Employees Community F…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO49.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · Jefferson Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

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 Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 121 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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