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Taylor 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $202k
- $250k+2 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $13,020,000 |
| CENTER FOR STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES | $1,000,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ZOO | $25,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $25,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| GRAND CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AIM HIGH ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| LADUE CHAPEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +21% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FPForest Park Forever Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $18M · revenue +154% · 28% of their budget
- JBJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +70%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES8× · 2018–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERone grant, 2022 · $10M · revenue +4%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INCone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -2% · 30% of their budget
- SLST LOUIS LEGACY ICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue +3% · 28% of their budget
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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.…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Science Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of T-Rex. 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 46 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS LEGACY ICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF T-REX ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Webster University ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Provident Inc ↗
- Who funds St Louis Black Repertory Company Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOGOS INC ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Upstream Theater ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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 · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission
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 Taylor Family Foundation 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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