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Flourish - a 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
- $250k+1 grant · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| BEYOND HOUSING INC | $100,000 |
| WELLSPRING COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| WEPOWER | $50,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
| DELMAR DEVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TALL TALES RANCH | $50,000 |
| LEARNING ZONE (REAL LIFE COLORADO) | $50,000 |
| LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GLOBAL HEALTH CONNECTIONS INC | $25,000 |
| PARENTS AS TEACHERS | $25,000 |
| STL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FHD MISSIONS HONDURAS | $25,000 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| EARTHDANCE FARMS | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Flourish - a Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k 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
- BHBEYOND HOUSING INC3× · 2022–2024 · $228k · revenue +25%
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +39%
- TLTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- PPPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missourione grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -55%
- FTFORWARD THROUGH FERGUSONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -10%
- PHPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +45%
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.
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the organization's vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
Advancing Health Equity Through Food System Change We are a nonprofit advancing food equity and nutrition security by working at the intersection of public health, education and policy. We start with dairy because of its outsized impact on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 TALL TALES RANCH ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EarthDance ↗
- Who funds WEPOWER ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY'S MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Global Health Connections Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSON ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds URBAN HARVEST STL ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds THE CAREGIVER CLUB ↗
- Who funds DEAR JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Until Theyre Home ↗
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 · Trio Foundation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Washington University · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc
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 Flourish - a Family Foundation 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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