How much does The Antler Foundation give?

The Antler Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $21,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Antler Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (22%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are The Antler Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: John Burroughs School ($57k), Keen St Louis LLC ($22k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas ($17k).

Does The Antler Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Antler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Antler Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Moneta Group Charitable Foundation, Berges Family Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation.

Where is The Antler Foundation based?

The Antler Foundation is based in MO.

The Antler Foundation

The Antler Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Antler 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.

$21k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$84kHealth$49kYouth Development$28kAnimals$17kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$9kEnvironment$8kArts & Culture$3kOther$0

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$132k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KEEN STL	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	$2,500
ST LOUIS ZOO	$2,500
MAKE A WISH - MISSOURI	$2,500
CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF	$1,000
NINE PBS	$1,000
ST LUKES HOSPITAL	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$250
SITEMAN CANCER CENTER	$200
ST STEPHEN'S INDIAN MISSION	$100
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL	$100

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $17k) 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.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$146k · 17 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$146k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+9%

Still filing today

53%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

JB
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL
6× · 2020–2025 · $57k · revenue +88%
KS
KEEN ST LOUIS LLC
5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +229%
MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS
6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +100%

Funded once

VH
VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +139%
OW
OPERATION WALK DENVER
one grant, 2020 · $10k
DD
DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +9%

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.

Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education

Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

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

Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment

Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

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 Gatchell Museum Association. 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

23 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. 23 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$87,950Other$65,650Youth Development$22,000Health$16,950Human Services$16,500Philanthropy$9,100Environment$4,650

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

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.

Moneta Group Charitable FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home