· Community foundation
St Louis Community Foundation Inc
To improve the quality of life in the greater st louis metropolitan area by connecting individuals, families, and businesses to their philanthropic goals.
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 839 grants below total $63,876,808 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,663,757 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,786,949 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 $10k159 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k480 grants · $9.8M
- $50k–250k161 grants · $16M
- $250k+39 grants · $37M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE | $4,000,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS | $3,903,804 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $2,461,000 |
| THE KINGS FOUNDATION AMERICA INC | $2,300,000 |
| MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS - MUNY | $2,151,500 |
| BIOSTL | $2,025,000 |
| ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION | $2,000,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $1,529,654 |
| FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL | $1,436,500 |
| MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,078,250 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF METRO ST LOUIS | $1,054,750 |
| COR JESU ACADEMY | $1,027,500 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $916,620 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $770,970 |
| CARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $722,000 |
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, $16.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of St Louis Community Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
999 repeat relationships — 625 still active in FY2024, 374 since wound down; 178 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.4M 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $95M · revenue +76%- SLST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $33M · revenue +100%
- BBIOSTL8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +445% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- DDDELMAR DIVINE SUPPORT CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $3.4M · revenue -99% · 31% of their budget
Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +50%- TMTHE MENNINGER CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -69%
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
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…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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,…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Dunn Memorials. 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 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
1457 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. 1457 of the 1,794 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIOSTL ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DAVIS & ELKINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELMAR DIVINE SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COVENT GARDEN THE ROYAL BALLET INC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Pott Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Edward Jones Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust
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 Inc 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 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
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.