· Public charity
St Louis Office for Developmental Disability Resources
To ensure individuals with developmental disabilities in the city of st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $6,725,303 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,340,426 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $615,123 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $344k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+8 grants · $4.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS ARC | $1,618,293 |
| ASSOCIATION ON AGING WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES | $765,844 |
| HORIZON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COMPANY | $663,368 |
| MERSMO GOODWILL | $292,411 |
| INDUSTRIAL AID | $290,619 |
| EASTER SEALS MIDWEST | $263,804 |
| HORIZON NORTH INC | $255,930 |
| BRIDGES COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES | $255,674 |
| PROJECT CU INC | $217,964 |
| UCP HEARTLAND | $200,451 |
| SUNNYHILL INC | $186,066 |
| TABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP | $150,000 |
| HOUSE OF PAIS | $141,611 |
| LIFEBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP | $131,685 |
| OPTIONS FOR JUSTICE | $128,330 |
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 (FY17–25, $23.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 55% of St Louis Office for Developmental Disability Resources’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 +30% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k 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 ARC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +94%
- AOASSOCIATION ON AGING WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +35% · 48% of their budget
- MGMERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES9× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS PROJECT CLUBone grant, 2017 · $386k
- RVRAINBOW VILLAGE INCone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +7%
- TOTHE OASIS INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +126%
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 provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
Provides services for individuals with disabilities.
Independent living services for persons with disabilities.
To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.
Independent living service to disabled clients including information and referral, advocacy, peer counseling, il skills training, housing, employment, ramp installation, emergency rent, utilities and food.
To develop and provide human service programs for intellectually and developmentally disabled children and adults in the areas of residential, enhanced health and support coordination; and to provide residential services for the mentally…
Pathways of wisconsin provides supported employment opportunities and empowerment through quality, person-centered programming for individuals of all abilities.
Improve disabled persons quality of life.
To establish places of residence for adults who are developmentally disabled so as to enable them to have available an environment which is condusive to their becoming and remaining productive members in society.
employU is a nonprofit disability employment service creating an inclusive workforce for people with disabilities through education, empowerment, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Arc Inc and the most unlike its peers is House of Pais. 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 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 56 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
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 ARC INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION ON AGING WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds HORIZON HOUSING DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds HORIZON NORTH HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds INDUSTRIAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEAD INJURY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CU INC ↗
- Who funds SUNNYHILL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PAIS ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds PREFERRED FAMILY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds WORTH INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds RECREATION COUNCIL OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ARTIST FIRST ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS FOR JUSTICE FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON RESIDENTIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds TABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUDEVINE INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds RISE 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 · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Veterans United Foundation · Jefferson Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Office for Developmental Disability Resources 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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.
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