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St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

Greater st.

$118k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Community Improvement$2.3MEmployment$2.1MScience & Tech$399kPhilanthropy$105kArts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
$112,726
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER ST LOUIS INC$112,726
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION$5,542
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CORTEX: $387k → 22%WORLD TRADE CENTER ST LOUIS: $30k → 11%THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $876k → 21%FIRST: $13k → 7%THE GRADUATE NETWORK: $10k → 22%ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $723k → 21%THE GRADUATE NETWORK: $5k → 22%THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $497k → 21%GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $2.2M → 21%GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $113k → 21%STATE OF ST LOUIS FOUNDATION: $100k → 21%GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $6k → 21%STL CITIZENS FOR SAFETY: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 4 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$4.5M
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+215%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22
Community ImprovementEducationScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GS
    GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.3M · revenue -7%
  • TL
    THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2.1M · revenue +92%
  • GS
    GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2022 · $106k · revenue ×27 · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • C
    CORTEXgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $387k · revenue +215%
  • WT
    WORLD TRADE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • FI
    For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $2,298,350 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST LOUIS INCCORTEX: $386,545 · Community ImprovementCORTEXGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $105,542 · Community ImprovementTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $2,094,906 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATIONWORLD TRADE CENTER: $30,000 · OtherTHE GRADUATE NETWORK INC: $15,000 · OtherSTL CITIZENS FOR SAFETY: $10,000 · OtherFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $12,500 · Science & TechST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$2,790,437Education$2,094,906Other$55,000Science & Tech$12,500Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC: $2,298,350 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $2,094,906 over 3y, 11% of budgetCORTEX: $386,545 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $105,542 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE GRADUATE NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Fidelity Investments …
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $426k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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