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St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation

As the philanthropic partner to st. Louis children's hospital, the foundation is committed to supporting the mission, to do what's right for kids, through a granting process that reinvests donor support into the programs, initiatives and expertise required to provide exceptional pediatric care. Areas of focus include patient and family…

$33M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$525,780
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,695,842
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$632M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$33M0%
FY20237$31M14%
FY20226$36M33%
FY20217$24M0%
FY20207$26M14%
FY20197$34M14%
FY20186$25M50%
FY20177$29Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$234MHuman Services$2.3MEducation$52kYouth Development$20kArts & Culture$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington University$118,056,13181%
St Louis Childrens Hospital$111,975,3758n/a
Bjc Home Care Services$4,760,6506n/a
Pedal the Cause$839,00083%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis$325,00042%
Bjc Home Service$274,8281n/a
Havenhouse St Louis$100,00019%
The Clark-Fox Family Foundation$62,00066%
Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare$56,00010%
Casa de Salud$50,00042%
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All grantees of St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Washington University$118,056,13181%
St Louis Childrens Hospital$111,975,3758n/a
Bjc Home Care Services$4,760,6506n/a
Pedal the Cause$839,00083%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis$325,00042%
Bjc Home Service$274,8281n/a
Havenhouse St Louis$100,00019%
The Clark-Fox Family Foundation$62,00066%
Bjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare$56,00010%
Casa de Salud$50,00042%
Blues for Kids$15,00020%
The Wyman Center$12,50010%
Missouri Historical Society$10,00010%
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$10,00010%
Build a Bear Foundation$7,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington University: $118,056,131 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPedal the Cause: $839,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of St Louis: $325,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetHavenhouse St Louis: $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetThe Clark-Fox Family Foundation: $62,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetBjc Health System Dba Bjc Healthcare: $56,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa de Salud: $50,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBlues for Kids: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Wyman Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban League of Metropolitan St Louis: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish HospitalMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable 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.

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How do I get to St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation?

Find your warmest path to St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation 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.

About St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation

How much does St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation give?
St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $32,840,315 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (99%), Human Services (1%), Education (0%).
Who are St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Washington University ($118M), St Louis Childrens Hospital ($112M), Bjc Home Care Services ($4.8M).
Does St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital, World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
Where is St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation based?
St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation is based in MO.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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