· Private foundation
The Adorjan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k11 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSATI-KAIN ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| GRATITUDE HOUSE | $25,000 |
| GRAND CENTER ARTS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MO | $5,000 |
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS | $2,500 |
| MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
| SHOW ME INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $500 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $500 |
| NINE PBS | $500 |
| ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
81 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 2 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +37%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +213%
- SRStray Rescue of St Louis5× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- BABARC ANIMAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SMST MARY VICTORIES CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -40%
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.
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,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Gratitude House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 30% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 117 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 Rosati-Kain Academy ↗
- Who funds GRATITUDE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS METROPOLITAN SPAY NEUTER AND WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds SHOW-ME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Washington University
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 The Adorjan 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.
- Friends of Rookery Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
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.