· Public charity
St Louis Blues Alumni Assn
To support amateur hockey.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $501,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $769,989 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $268,489 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The V Foundation | $400,000 |
| St Louis AAA Blues | $94,000 |
| St Louis Prospects Hockey Club | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 68% of your 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 6% of St Louis Blues Alumni Assn’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 +84% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- SLST LOUIS LEGACY ICE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $820k · revenue +3% · 29% of their budget
- SLSt Louis Blues Warriors Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $488k · revenue +235% · 49% of their budget
- CHCHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION3× · 2018–2021 · $187k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- NANHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -111%
- DADISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $24k · revenue +28%
- LELINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +44%
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.
Hockey, at all levels of play. this includes education in the playing skills of ice hockey for the benefits of health and welfare of individual players and the community, including such advanced programs that possibly may assist individual…
The american collegiate hockey association is the national governing body for the sport of ice hockey at the collegiate level throughout the united states. the overall objective is to maintain the highest possible standards for the sport…
To promote the personal character and athletic development of players by providing on-ice and off-ice training and opportunities that allow each player to maximize their potential as a person and as a hockey player. the sioux falls power…
To support amateur hockey.
To enhance the student-athletes' educational process through intercollegiate competitive activity encompassing the rules of fairness based on the highest standards of integrity and sportsmanlike conduct.
To recognize and honor individuals that have demonstrated excellence in St. Louis Amateur Hockey
To be the leader in the growth and advocacy for girls hockey in the St. Louis region by providing a safe, player focused and fun environment for female athletes. Offering programs for female athletes aged 4-19.
Become ambassadors of youth hockey while developing players to reach their maximum potential. have respect and love for the game while acting with integrity, fairness, and honesty.
The kcyha provides a fun developmental and competitive athletic experience to its players and their families.
The st. paul capitals hockey association, a community built around a common respect for the game of hockey, strives to consistently develop players and coaches to their full potential in a fun and safe hockey environment. spcha members…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Legacy Ice Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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.
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 ST LOUIS LEGACY ICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Louis Blues Warriors Inc ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PROSPECTS HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds NHL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISABLED ATHLETE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds SSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Tph Impact Player Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESPONDER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT ↗
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: World Wide Technology Foundation · Blues for Kids · Wsdc Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 St Louis Blues Alumni Assn 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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