· Private foundation
Strauss Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $20,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $7,500 |
| EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| LADUE CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,500 |
| EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| GRACE LIFE CHURCH | $500 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| OWL BRIDGE ACRES FARM SANCTUARY | $100 |
| EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $50) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NBNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +167%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +11%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D4× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +205%
- NMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $250
- SLST LOUIS ZOOone grant, 2024 · $200
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Westminster university is a private, independent university dedicated to student learning. we are a community of learners with a long and honored tradition of caring deeply about students and their education. we offer liberal arts and…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LADUE GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds GERMAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eton Academy ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Strauss Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strauss Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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