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Stifel Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$2.6MHealth$1.4MInternational$1.2MEducation$1.2MRecreation & Sports$913kCrime & Legal$721kHuman Services$708kArts & Culture$639kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $328k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $485k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way Greater St Louis$300,000
American Red Cross$110,000
Mercy Health Foundation St Louis$100,000
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$75,000
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$50,000
COCA-Center of Creative Arts$50,000
911 Day$50,000
Operation Warm Inc$50,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis$37,500
Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis Inc$35,000
St Louis Aquarium Foundation$30,000
St Louis City NAACP$25,000
Pedal the Cause$25,000
American Heart Association$25,000
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas$25,000
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 (FY19–25, $766k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Ascend Dallas: $10k → 14%Blessings in a Backpack Inc: $25k → 15%American Red Cross: $35k → 14%Friends of Kids with Cancer: $15k → 11%Gateway Region YMCA: $10k → 21%Friends of Kids with Cancer: $14k → 11%Gateway Region YMCA: $5k → 21%Semper Fi Society of St Louis: $15k → 11%Semper Fi Society of St Louis: $15k → 11%The Little Bit Foundation: $10k → 11%The Little Bit Foundation: $8k → 11%Semper Fi Society of St Louis: $15k → 11%Little Patriots Embraced Inc: $15k → 11%Semper Fi Society of St Louis: $10k → 11%Guns 'N Hoses: $50k → 11%Prosperity Connection: $20k → 21%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas: $75k → 11%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas: $50k → 11%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas: $25k → 11%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas: $25k → 11%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas: $15k → 11%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri & Kansas: $10k → 11%Metropolitan St Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity: $5k → 21%American Red Cross: $110k → 11%Pedal the Cause: $25k → 11%Pedal the Cause: $25k → 11%Pedal the Cause: $25k → 11%Pedal the Cause: $25k → 11%Pedal the Cause: $25k → 11%Gateway Region YMCA: $10k → 21%Pedal the Cause: $18k → 11%Pedal the Cause: $17k → 11%American Red Cross: $10k → 11%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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
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DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 51 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
72

Total granted

$8.4M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+3%

Still filing today

76%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • HA
    HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $827k · revenue +2%
  • C
    CONCORDANCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $721k · revenue +222%
  • 9D
    911 DAY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $475k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • AC
    Ascension Charity Classic
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MP
    MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -10%

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 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
2
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
3
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
St Luke's Health Foundation of Sioux City Iowa

To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.

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7
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
8
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
St Luke's Health Foundation Ltd

St. Luke's Health Foundation is a not-for-profit organization established to develop philanthropic resources that support St. Luke's mission "To improve the health of people in the communities we serve." We're responsible for cultivating…

Health
11
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
12
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

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.

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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 Samaritan's Purse. 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 backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterPregnancy Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringSenior Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Developmental Disabilities …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community College Foundatio…Independent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr15%30%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr24%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr16%5%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr16%37%35–55yr24%40%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/95
the rest of the field
12%
4,543/39,396

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

92 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. 92 of the 129 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/92
Grantees still filing
56/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $2,036,096 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOU…911 DAY — $475,000 · Philanthropy911 DAYMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $75,000 · PhilanthropyURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $301,820 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISSt Louis City NAACP — $150,000 · OtherCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $538,000 · OtherCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTSUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $216,000 · OtherUnited States Ski Team FoundationTRAILNET INC — $129,520 · OtherForest Park Forever Inc — $300,150 · OtherForest Park Forever Inc+73 more — $1,874,841 · Other+73 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $60,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHI…+3 more — $46,000 · InternationalOperation Warm Inc — $323,050 · Human ServicesOperation W…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $200,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH…PEDAL THE CAUSE — $160,019 · Human ServicesPEDAL THE C…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $155,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…Semper Fi Society of St Louis — $55,000 · Human ServicesSt Louis Guns N Hoses Boxing Association — $50,000 · Human Services+9 more — $148,700 · Human Services+9 moreHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $827,450 · EducationHORATIO AL…St Louis Blues Alumni Assn — $75,000 · EducationSt Louis B…+9 more — $99,320 · Education+9 moreCONCORDANCE — $721,250 · Crime & LegalMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS — $200,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $190,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $70,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $60,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $40,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $25,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $14,000 · Health
Philanthropy$2,686,096Other$3,510,331International$1,106,000Human Services$1,091,769Education$1,001,770Crime & Legal$721,250Health$624,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $2,036,096 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $827,450 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCONCORDANCE — $721,250 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $538,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budget911 DAY — $475,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $323,050 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $301,820 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc — $300,150 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $216,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS — $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $200,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $160,019 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $155,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRAILNET INC — $129,520 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS — $112,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCIVIC PROGRESS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION — $88,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetSt Louis Blues Alumni Assn — $75,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $74,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Ski Association — $74,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSemper Fi Society of St Louis — $55,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $53,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION — $50,675 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Louis Guns N Hoses Boxing Association — $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis — $47,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC — $43,844 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $33,400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC — $31,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTH AND HOMES ST LOUIS — $30,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $28,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% 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…Edward Jones Foundati…Commerce Bancshares F…Centene FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…World Wide Technology…Moneta Group Charitab…Employees Community F…Ameren Charitable Tru…Pott FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO58.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electric · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Stifel 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
  • Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Stifel Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Stifel Foundation Inc 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 129 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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