· Public charity
St Louis Bar Foundation
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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.
The 3 grants below total $70,040 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,549 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,509 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $48,170 |
| 911DAYORG | $16,200 |
| FREEDOM SUITS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,670 |
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 (FY20–22, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 -3% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS2× · 2021–2022 · $138k · revenue +24%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +48%
- SPST PATRICK CENTER2× · 2020–2022 · $28k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OIOUTREACH INCone grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue -6%
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +7%
- SLST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2024 · $6k · 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.
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.
To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…
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…
Economic development.
United Way of Greater St. Louis mobilizes the community with one goal in mind - helping people live their best possible lives.
To provide healthy and affordable food to low income communities
Feed the need stl is an organization which plans, organizes and executes an annual food collection and food packaging event which distributes the packed meals to schools, orphanages, medical clinics and feeding programs in the united…
All volunteer food pantry distr food in 2025 team managed and distributed food and necessities to less fortunate families in north saint louis county, mo.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Area Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bar Association of Metropolitan St Louis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds 911 DAY ↗
- Who funds St Louis World Food Day Inc ↗
- Who funds Step It Up Inc ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS ↗
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.
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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 St Louis Bar 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.