· Community foundation
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.
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 228 grants below total $6,581,379 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,397,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $816,345 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 $10k89 grants · $649k
- $10k–50k120 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPACT FOUNDATION | $1,030,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $715,915 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $600,000 |
| CREATE A LOOP | $300,509 |
| THRIVE ST LOUIS | $138,206 |
| FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $130,216 |
| STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS | $97,076 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS | $71,262 |
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE | $70,927 |
| THE ABBEY OF SAINT MARY AND SAINT LOUIS | $66,723 |
| NINE PBS | $60,904 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $60,654 |
| SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $60,388 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF MISSOURI AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $59,803 |
| MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $58,159 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
336 repeat relationships — 186 still active in FY2024, 150 since wound down; 31 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +56%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +76%- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2019–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +76%
Funded once
- MBMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $360k · revenue +48%
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -21%- RGRACEWAY GIVES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -71%
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.
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.
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…
Economic development.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
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.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the organization's vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
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.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is The Mary Culver Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
470 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. 470 of the 550 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE A LOOP ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Pott 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 Community 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.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Voices for Children Foundation Inc — 48% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.