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Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY MR BENJAMIN GILDEHAUS | $5,000 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| FOOD OUTREACH INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR HEARING SPEECH | $2,500 |
| MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS | $2,500 |
| INTERFAITH RESIDENCE DBA DOORWAYS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +77% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- IRINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS6× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +123%
- FOFOOD OUTREACH INC8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +71%
- MCMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS6× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- TLTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +80%
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OFone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LILOGOS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +8%
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.
See schedule o.city academy transforms children, families and our community through exceptional education and bold expectations that empower children to overcome barriers.
To provide an innovative and transformational k-12 learning community that empowers students with language-based learning disabilities.
Baltimore Lab School is an innovative learning community fostering scholarship and creativity in students with different learning styles. In an environment of inquiry and hands-on exploration, Baltimore Lab School students learn to…
The league school provides educational (ages 5-21) and mental health programs for students with intellectual, developmental and/or psychiatric disabilities.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Lakeshore Intergenerational School is the second replicationof the award-winning Intergenerational School that opened on Cleveland 's east side in 2000. The school features a curriculum where students learn at their own pace and knowlege…
Providing specialized educational programs and services to the children and youth who are a special part of our journey together.
Empowering deaf children to listen, learn and talk.
The Academy is a unique alternative high school, which provides youth with an opportunity to acquire an education, life skills, and emotional growth. The Academy is based on an integrated service system model, which combines academic…
Clover nola educates children, strengthens families, and builds communities.
To improve lives and expand possibilities for individuals with disabilities by providing educational, therapeutic and employment services.
Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift for Life Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leader Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 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 LEADER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKPOINT TENNIS AND LIFE SKILLS A ↗
- Who funds THE OASIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds City Academy ↗
- Who funds LOGOS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFER WATERS IN MEMORY - OF NICHOLAS ↗
- Who funds NEWBURGH INTERFAITH EMERGENCY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
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 · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Olive Dempsey Charitable Trust · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Centene Foundation · Herbert and Adrian Woods Fdn · Express Scripts Foundation
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 Sigmond & Marie P Baer Tr 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.