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St Louis Bar Foundation

The st.

$152k
Granted FY2026still arriving
4
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$44k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$919kCrime & Legal$421kFood & Nutrition$296kEducation$6k
02FY2026 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $115,445, the rows itemized in this filing. The $152,255 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $36,810 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$33,869
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS$44,001
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$33,869
MEALS ON WHEELS$25,000
911DAYORG$12,575
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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Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $90k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $30k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS: $25k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $8k → 11%STEP IT UP INC: $20k → 11%STEP IT UP INC: $8k → 11%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$1.7M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-6%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $138k · revenue +24%
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    2× · 2020–2026 · $44k · revenue +7%
  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • OI
    OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue -6%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -45%
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
St Louis Tax Assistance Progr
Human Services
2
Food Outreach Inc

To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer

Food & Nutrition
3
Feed the Need Stl

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Hot Lunch Service

Exists solely to support Kansas City area residents in need. Everyday of the year, faith-based volunteer groups and organizations provide and serve meals to those in need. Donors and volunteers are the heart and soul of St. Mary's Food…

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5
Urban Harvest Stl

Urban Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems.

Food & Nutrition
6
Team Food Pantry Inc

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.

Religion
7
St Louis Metromarket

To provide healthy and affordable food to low income communities

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8
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
11
Food is Love Production Company Inc

provide food access to food insecure neighbors in need. Most significant activity of 2025 was providing 57,211 hot food truck meals to St Louis residents displaced by the May 16 tornado.

Arts & Culture
12
Stoddard County Senior Citizens Agency Inc

Operate nutrition program for senior citizens, consisting of both center dining and home delivered meals

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Area Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is St Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOM SUITS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $862,743 · OtherFREEDOM SUITS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONBAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $419,976 · OtherBAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $137,500 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS+3 more: $87,250 · Other+3 moreMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $62,500 · Human ServicesStep It Up Inc: $27,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $43,869 · Food & Nutrition911 DAY: $43,775 · PhilanthropyLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $39,034 · Crime & LegalOUTREACH INC: $27,000 · InternationalST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,507,469Human Services$90,000Food & Nutrition$43,869Philanthropy$43,775Crime & Legal$39,034International$27,000Arts & Culture$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAR ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $419,976 over 10y, 3.7% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $137,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $62,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $43,869 over 2y, 0.0% of budget911 DAY: $43,775 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $39,034 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis World Food Day Inc: $27,750 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStep It Up Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetOUTREACH INC: $27,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

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.

Commerce Bancshares F…The Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 St Louis Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Louis Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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