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St Louis Cardinals Community Fund

Provide financial support to area organizations that serve the needs of children in the st.

$897k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$731kEducation$547kArts & Culture$396kInternational$330kHealth$181kRecreation & Sports$172kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $642,482 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $897,481 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $254,999 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
$21,775
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MO$165,000
ST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION$100,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF METRO STL$50,000
A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND$30,000
THE MAGIC HOUSE$25,000
BRACE FOR IMPACT 46 INC$25,000
COCA-CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS$23,000
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS$21,775
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE CENTER$20,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK$17,139
CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH$14,325
SPECIAL EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION$10,500
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL CHARITIES INC$10,000
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $747k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%BIG LEAGUE IMPACT INC: $10k → 13%Southside Early Childhood Center: $15k → 21%EYE THRIVE: $7k → 11%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $525k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YMCA: $180k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
MO
SC
DC
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 17 repeat orgs$712k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
22

Total granted

$3.6M
$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyInternationalEducationOther

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

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +35%
  • GR
    GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $705k · revenue +10%
  • AM
    A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SA
    SSI ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -97% · 41% of their budget
  • RC
    ROBERTO CLEMENTE FOUNDATION CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CA
    CITY ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +101%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
2
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
4
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.

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5
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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6
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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…

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7
St Louis Youth Soccer Association

To provide soccer leagues to promote youth soccer in the st louis area

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8
Special Olympics Missouri Inc

Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.

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9
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
10
St Louis Sports Foundation Inc

Foster amateur sports competitions, opportunities for youth and adults to participate in sports, and a culture of sportsmanship so st. louisans lead healthier, happier lives.

Recreation & Sports
11
World Affairs Council of St Louis

Education, non-partisan, membership organization that encourages people and organizations in the region to take an interest in, to learn more about, and to participate to a greater extent in global matters.

International
12
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Public Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Big League Impact Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr18%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr17%10%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr18%40%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/47
the rest of the field
14%
1,787/12,373

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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/41
Grantees still filing
21/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI — $1,225,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURIMATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB — $165,000 · OtherMATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUBCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH — $98,325 · OtherGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherSSI ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · OtherCONCORDANCE — $90,000 · Other+19 more — $430,243 · Other+19 moreST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,260,000 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDAT…+3 more — $42,336 · PhilanthropyGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $705,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY REGION …INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC — $30,000 · Human Services+4 more — $41,978 · Human Services+4 moreA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS IN THE KNOW — $81,329 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION — $154,964 · Arts & CultureTHE MAGIC HOUSE — $150,555 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $40,300 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $23,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBrace for Impact 46 Inc — $200,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 · InternationalST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INC — $50,000 · Education
Other$2,208,568Philanthropy$1,302,336Human Services$776,978Youth Development$421,329Arts & Culture$378,819International$250,000Education$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,260,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI — $1,225,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $705,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $240,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBrace for Impact 46 Inc — $200,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetMATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB — $165,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION — $154,964 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE — $150,555 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSSI ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH — $98,325 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORDANCE — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS IN THE KNOW — $81,329 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetASTHMA AND ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $54,588 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $53,034 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $40,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWHITEY HERZOG YOUTH FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $23,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE KIDS A SMILE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION — $16,315 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig League Impact Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMajor League Baseball Charities Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRESTWOOD SUNSET HILLS ROTARY FNDTN — $10,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $7,336 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEYE THRIVE — $6,978 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $5,765 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…World Wide Technology…Edward Jones Foundati…St Louis Community Fo…Moneta Group Charitab…Centene FoundationEmployees Community F…The Bellwether Founda…Brown Dana Charitable…Regional Cultural and…Edward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO40.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Bellwether Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Edward Jones 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 Cardinals Community Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    8report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to St Louis Cardinals Community Fund?

    Find your warmest path to St Louis Cardinals Community Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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