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Tacony Family Foundation at a glance

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Tacony Family Foundation

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$167kHealth$35kEducation$16kReligion$10kAnimals$4kInternational$2kPhilanthropy$1kHousing & Shelter$800Other$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$586k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - GATEWAY AREA CHAPTER$5,000
STAGES ST LOUIS$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $325 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%EVERY CHILD'S HOPE: $100 → 11%SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $500 → 21%FEED MY PEOPLE: $200 → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDTION OF MISSOURI: $1k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDTION OF MISSOURI: $1k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI: $1k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDTION OF MISSOURI: $500 → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI: $200 → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $2k → 21%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $100 → 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.
$215k · 24 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
25

Total granted

$215k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+11%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • SS
    STAGES ST LOUIS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $155k · revenue +162%
  • CH
    CHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +10%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS
    5× · 2018–2023 · $4k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • MT
    MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -48%
  • YW
    YOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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

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.

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
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
3
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
4
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
5
Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
6
St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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7
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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8
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
9
Cinema St Louis

Cinema st. louis engages the st. louis region through educational programs, cultural connectivity, and curated film exhibitions.

Arts & Culture
10
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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11
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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12
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; the most unlike its peers is Gateway Warrior Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAGES ST LOUIS: $155,000 · OtherSTAGES ST LOUISNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - GATEWAY AREA CHAPTER: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - GATEWAY AREA CHAPTERCHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY: $10,000 · Other+24 more: $10,640 · OtherCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $550 · Arts & CultureCHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 · ReligionYOUTH WITH A MISSION - SAN DIEGOBAJA: $2,500 · ReligionMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $3,700 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $2,100 · Human ServicesYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $425 · Human Services+2 more: $300 · Human ServicesNAPLES ZOO INC: $2,500 · AnimalsTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · AnimalsST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthGATEWAY CHILDRENS CHARITY: $2,000 · EducationACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $450 · EducationST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100 · Education
Other$200,640Arts & Culture$11,550Religion$8,500Human Services$8,025Animals$4,000Health$3,500Education$2,550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAGES ST LOUIS: $155,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY CHILDRENS CHARITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST PATRICK PARTNERSHIP CENTER: $450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ST LOUIS: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND: $220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF GRACE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEvangelical Children's Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS VETERANS HOME COMMITTEE: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Commerce Bancshares F…Employees Community F…Edward Jones Foundati…The Bellwether Founda…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Norman J Stupp Founda…Edward Jones Foundati…Centene FoundationSt Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…Youthbridge Community…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO34.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation

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 Tacony Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tacony Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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 50 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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