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Souers Charitable Trust at a glance

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Souers Charitable Trust

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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$932k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$13MHealth$8.3MReligion$873kHuman Services$859kEnvironment$230k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $374k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
$91,283
Median grant
10
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$932,491
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$838,505
MIAMI UNIVERSITY$466,246
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$349,684
BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$349,684
ST LUKE EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$233,583
THE SALVATION ARMY$140,918
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$140,918
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$140,918
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ASSN$140,918
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$93,986
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$93,986
LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY$91,283
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$89,986
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS$70,490
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE SALVATION ARMY: $183k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $183k → 14%LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY: $183k → 5%ST LUKE EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $304k → 11%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $122k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 21%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $607k → 12%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $666k → 4%THE SALVATION ARMY: $166k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $166k → 14%LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY: $166k → 5%THE ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL: $276k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $455k → 21%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $551k → 12%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $607k → 4%THE SALVATION ARMY: $141k → 14%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $141k → 14%ST LUKE EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $234k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $990k → 21%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $466k → 12%ST LUKE EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $192k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $413k → 21%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $384k → 12%ST LUKE EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: $167k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $839k → 21%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $333k → 12%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $932k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $350k → 21%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $607k → 14%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ASSN: $183k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $690k → 21%GEORGE WASHINGTON: $551k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $288k → 21%GEORGE WASHINGTON: $551k → 14%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ASSN: $166k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $599k → 21%GEORGE WASHINGTON: $384k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $250k → 21%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $384k → 14%UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ASSN: $141k → 11%BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FDN: $455k → 21%BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FDN: $413k → 21%BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $350k → 21%BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $288k → 21%BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL FDN: $250k → 21%ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $183k → 21%ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $166k → 21%ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $141k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 25 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
1

Total granted

$23M
$276k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +18%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +30%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL
    one grant, 2020 · $276k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
8
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University; the most unlike its peers is American Kidney Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $4,209,078 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University: $3,195,616 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,755,326 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $707,238 · EducationLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEMWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $467,787 · Education+1 more: $122,869 · EducationMIAMI UNIVERSITY: $2,340,433 · OtherMIAMI UNIVERSITYGEORGE WASHINGTON: $1,485,249 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTONST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $707,238 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALTHE SALVATION ARMY: $707,238 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ASSN: $682,497 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ASSNMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $471,787 · OtherMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYTHE ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL: $275,871 · Other+5 more: $1,075,192 · Other+5 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $1,755,326 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BAR…ST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS: $896,659 · HealthST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRE…American Heart Association Inc: $724,021 · HealthAmerican Heart Associa…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $455,004 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIET…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $353,842 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & …MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $238,221 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $238,209 · HealthMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $229,854 · Environment
Education$10,457,914Other$7,745,505Health$4,661,282Environment$229,854

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $4,209,078 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $3,195,616 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,755,326 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $1,755,326 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS: $896,659 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $724,021 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $707,238 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $467,787 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $455,004 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $353,842 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $240,308 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $238,221 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $238,209 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $229,854 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $122,869 over 5y, 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 ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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…St Louis Community Fo…United Way WorldwideRenaissance Charitabl…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Souers Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Souers Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 26 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.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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