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The Anthon Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$60kPhilanthropy$38kPublic Safety & Disaster$29kEducation$23kYouth Development$19kCrime & Legal$16kRecreation & Sports$15kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,005
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHAMINADE FUND$15,000
THE BACKSTOPPERS INC$10,000
ANNIE'S HOPE$10,000
WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT$7,000
GOOD SHEPHERD$6,000
GENE SLAY'S GIRLS AND BOYS CLUB OF ST LOUIS$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,005
ST LOUIS CATHOLIC ACADEMY$5,000
ST LOUIS ARC$5,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN$3,000
MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION$3,000
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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $5k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$182k · 10 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$182k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-9%

Still filing today

60%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentInternationalEducationOther
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

  • GS
    GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +19%
  • FP
    Forest Park Forever Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +88%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS ARC INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • MG
    MISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BH
    BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $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
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
2
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Simon's Fund

To prevent sudden cardiac arrest and death in children, teens and young adults.

Health
5
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
6
Special Olympics Inc

Special olympics strives to create a better world by fostering the acceptance and inclusion of people of all abilities through sports, health and education programs.

Recreation & Sports
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Asps promotes the highest standards in advocacy, research, education, patient safety, and ethical standards for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.

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9
Shock Trauma Associates Pa

Under the medical sevice plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical instruction…

Health
10
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
11
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
12
St Francis Foundation

We, st. francis foundation and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.st. francis foundation is a member of st. francis healthcare and trinity…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Arc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Good Shepherd Corporation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAMINADE FUND: $37,500 · OtherCHAMINADE FUNDTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $29,000 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISANNIE'S HOPE: $23,000 · OtherANNIE'S HOPEGOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATION: $16,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATIONST LOUIS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $12,500 · OtherST LOUIS CATHOLIC ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient: $5,005 · OtherMISSION GATE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN: $5,000 · Other+2 more: $3,500 · OtherGENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentForest Park Forever Inc: $15,000 · EnvironmentST LOUIS ARC INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesWORLD PEDIATRICS: $13,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,175 · HealthTHE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Other$136,505Youth Development$16,000Environment$15,000Human Services$15,000International$13,000Health$8,175Education$5,000

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 budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CORPORATION: $16,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetGENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $5,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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