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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNTERPUBLIC | $83,333 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS | $45,000 |
| WHITFIELD SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| ARCH CITY DEFENDERS | $10,000 |
| THE WILSON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $60k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS6× · 2020–2025 · $275k · revenue +66%
- TWTHE WILSON SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +43%
- SLST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL5× · 2020–2024 · $114k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS ART MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SLST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIOone grant, 2020 · $10k
- 44theVilleone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…
The mission of st. louis voices academy of media arts is to leverage media arts and storytelling to equip students with the agency to excel academically, author their own futures, and make meaningful contributions in their communities.
La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
The mission of the siue east st. louis charter high school is to prepare sudents, who are career - and college - ready, upon graduation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
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…
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Dance Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Niche Employee Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds COUNTERPUBLIC ↗
- Who funds WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 30 FOR THE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Brace for Impact 46 Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds 4theVille ↗
- Who funds MINDLEAPS ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NICHE EMPLOYEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds EHLERS-DANLOS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MANUAL HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI APPLESEED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
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
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 Strive Fund 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.
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.
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