Missouri · Private foundation
Strive Fund
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.
- $238k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $83,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Strive Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $238k | 70% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $223k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $270k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $230k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $235k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $235k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contemporary Art Museum St Louis | $275,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Wilson School | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| St Louis Shakespeare Festival | $114,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Counterpublic | $83,333 | 1 | 2% |
| Whitfield School Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| John Burroughs School | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 30 for the Kids Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Brace for Impact 46 Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Louis Dance Theatre | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contemporary Art Museum St Louis | $275,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Wilson School | $120,000 | 5 | 1% |
| St Louis Shakespeare Festival | $114,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Counterpublic | $83,333 | 1 | 2% |
| Whitfield School Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| John Burroughs School | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| 30 for the Kids Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Brace for Impact 46 Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Louis Dance Theatre | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mindleaps | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| 4theVille | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Archcity Defenders | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kipp St Louis | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ehlers-Danlos Society | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Niche Employee Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 43% |
| City Academy Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Missouri Appleseed | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| National Eating Disorders Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Manual High School Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Strive Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The John and Alison Ferring Family Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · World Wide Technology Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Strive Fund?
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About Strive Fund
- How much does Strive Fund give?
- Strive Fund reported 10 grants totaling $238,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Strive Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (24%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Strive Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Contemporary Art Museum St Louis ($275k), The Wilson School ($120k), St Louis Shakespeare Festival ($114k).
- Does Strive Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Strive Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Strive Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Strive Fund based?
- Strive Fund is based in MO.
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