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St Louis Philanthropic Organization

Provide funding and capacity building to local nonprofits

$40k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
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 FY2017–2022.

Community Improvement$846kEducation$227kHealth$227kHuman Services$194kYouth Development$132kHousing & Shelter$87kArts & Culture$51kCrime & Legal$36kOther$0
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
College Bound$10,000
Community Health & Partnership$10,000
Angel s Arms$10,000
Arch City Defenders$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 (FY17–22, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Little Bit Foundation: $10k → 11%FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC: $8k → 21%Annie Malone Children & Family Service Center: $10k → 21%Flance Early Learning Center: $8k → 21%ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES: $5k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $5k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORN: $5k → 11%SOUTHSIDE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $5k → 21%Angel's Arms: $8k → 11%Angel's Arms: $8k → 11%ANGEL'S ARMS: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $7k → 11%COMMUNITIES FIRST: $7k → 21%Humantri: $6k → 21%HUMANITRI: $5k → 21%Angel s Arms: $10k → 21%BILINGUAL INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANT: $7k → 21%United 4 Children: $7k → 21%FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $6k → 21%Fathers & Families Support Center: $5k → 21%OUR LADY'S INN: $4k → 21%IMMIGRANT REFUGEE WOMEN'S PROGRAM: $5k → 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.

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$576k · 40 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
98

Total granted

$576k
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AA
    ANGELS' ARMS
    4× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +65%
  • TW
    THE WYMAN CENTER
    3× · 2018–2021 · $23k · revenue +46%
  • LF
    Lift for Life Gym Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • BM
    BRICKS MORTAR BROOM & SHIELD INC
    one grant, 2021 · $807k
  • DC
    DESALES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -88%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +36%

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 Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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2
Gateway Homeless Services Inc

To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…

Human Services
3
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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4
Behavioral Health Network of Greater St

Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.

Health
5
Community Builders Network of Metro St Louis

The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…

Community Improvement
6
House Everyone Stl

Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.

Housing & Shelter
7
St Joseph Housing Initiative

As a faith-based organization, our mission is to create vibrant communities through affordable quality housing where low and moderate income families can thrive, prosper and build wealth.

Housing & Shelter
8
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Conflict Resolution Center St Louis City

Conflict Resolution Center St. Louis empowers people to resolve conflict through accessible mediation, coaching, and education.

Human Services
10
Casa of St Louis

Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…

Civil Rights
11
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Rx Outreach Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Healing and Empow…Child and Family Support Se…Performing Arts Organizatio…Private Charitable Foundati…Lutheran Senior ServicesHealth System FoundationsIndependent SchoolsSupportive Housing ProvidersDisability Services Organiz…Historic Preservation & Com…Senior Care Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%7%5–10yr16%31%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr17%26%35–55yr19%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%48%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr17%11%35–55yr19%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/139
the rest of the field
14%
1,449/10,018

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

118 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. 118 of the 139 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/118
Grantees still filing
78/118
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRICKS MORTAR BROOM & SHIELD INC — $807,000 · OtherBRICKS MORTAR BROOM & SHIELD INC+75 more — $509,385 · Other+75 moreANGELS' ARMS — $30,000 · Human ServicesANGELS' ARMSTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $19,845 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE B…HUMANITRI — $16,000 · Human ServicesHUMANITRIFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $15,500 · Human ServicesFLANCE MANAG…Annie Malone Children and Family Service — $15,000 · Human ServicesAnnie Malone…IMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM — $12,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT HO…ST LOUIS ARC INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesST LOUIS ARC…FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS — $11,446 · Human ServicesFATHERS SUPP…NURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $9,700 · Human ServicesST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — $8,500 · Human ServicesCollege Hill Foundation — $7,500 · Human ServicesMonarch Immigrant Services — $7,488 · Human ServicesCHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN — $7,200 · Human Services+8 more — $41,000 · Human Services+8 moreLift for Life Gym Inc — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS IN THE KNOW — $10,574 · Youth DevelopmentA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $9,864 · Youth DevelopmentSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHenRose Cares Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSt Louis Bicycle Works Inc — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGentlemen of Vision Rites of Passage Enterprises — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INC — $17,000 · HealthTHE EMPOWEREDMENT NETWORK — $15,000 · HealthHEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE — $11,450 · HealthINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $10,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN FAMILY MEDICINE — $10,000 · HealthMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $10,000 · HealthGATEWAY TO HOPE — $5,500 · HealthGENERATE HEALTH STL — $5,000 · HealthSCOTTISH RITE CLINIC FOR CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS OF ST LOUIS INC — $5,000 · HealthRX Outreach Inc — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR RESPIRATORY EQUITY — $5,000 · HealthCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES — $5,000 · Health+2 more — $6,000 · HealthDE LA SALLE INC — $25,000 · EducationCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationYourwords STL — $5,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationHOME WORKS - THVP — $5,000 · EducationWGU CORPORATION — $5,000 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION — $4,250 · EducationPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC — $3,500 · EducationLewis Place Historical Preservation Inc — $22,340 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE REACTION LAB — $6,250 · Community ImprovementNORTH NEWSTEAD ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCarondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc — $5,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ST LOUIS — $3,500 · Community ImprovementARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $18,000 · Crime & LegalNational Conference for Comminuty & Justice of Metropolitan St Louis — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY — $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,316,385Human Services$213,179Youth Development$118,938Health$109,950Education$67,750Community Improvement$42,090Crime & Legal$32,000

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 budgetANGELS' ARMS — $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDE LA SALLE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLift for Life Gym Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY — $20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $19,845 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS — $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INC — $17,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetST LOUIS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE — $16,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHUMANITRI — $16,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $15,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE EMPOWEREDMENT NETWORK — $15,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetAnnie Malone Children and Family Service — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY GARDEN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM — $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAlive Inc — $14,435 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP SERVICES (CHIPS) — $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM — $12,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GREENS MARKET INC — $11,800 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPRISON PERFORMING ARTS — $11,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE — $11,450 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS — $11,446 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARE AND COUNSELING INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE STL — $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS IN THE KNOW — $10,574 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDESALES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlmost Home — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Conference for Comminuty & Justice of Metropolitan St Louis — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPEACE EDUCATION ACTION COMPASSION & EMPOWERMENT WEAVING — $10,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS — $9,864 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $9,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $8,925 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION — $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH ST LOUIS — $7,625 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCollege Hill Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN — $7,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH — $6,720 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCREATIVE REACTION LAB — $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOYCE — $5,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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…St Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…Employees Community F…Commerce Bancshares F…Pott FoundationNorman J Stupp Founda…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Brown Dana Charitable…Youthbridge Community…World Wide Technology…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO128.7× affinity82 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 · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology 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 Philanthropic Organization 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Philanthropic Organization?

    Find your warmest path to St Louis Philanthropic Organization 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 139 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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