· Public charity
The Buddy Fund
To serve local at-risk youth in partnership with dedicated schools, recreation, and youth organizations by providing new sports and recreation equipment to create opportunities for development of their physical and mental health, confidence and character, teamwork and respect for others, and academic expectations and personal…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOU FUSZ ATHLETICS | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LFLOU FUSZ SOCCER CLUB3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +27%
- IBIsaac Bruce Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +243%
- BHBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue -13%
Funded once
- ECEvangelical Children's Homegraduated3× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +27%
- FIFOX ICE HOCKEY CLUBone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +23%
- CCCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE2× · 2019–2020 · $1k · revenue -36%
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.
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.
To enable all young people, especially those who need them most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To provide soccer leagues to promote youth soccer in the st louis area
The mission of the boys & girls clubs of west central missouri is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as caring and productive citizens.
The organization promotes the personal development of boys and girls ages 5-18, with special concern for the disadvantaged by providing services that build self-esteem, values and skills during critical periods of growth.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
Provide youth hockey players valuable life skills with training, competition and team building experiences. while promoting self esteem, physical healthy habits
To serve children, youth and families in east st. louis, illinois, with programs that prepare them for successful futures academically, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
To bring together community and private sector resources to prepare low income high school students attending public schools in the city of st. louis for the future through economic opportunities and education.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. club membership is open to all kids ages 6-18.
Preparing youth to be successful beyond high shcool, while intoducing them to the vast gold community.
Children First brings the community together to create better outcomes so that every young person in St. Louis Park can thrive. We convene cross-sector initiatives working to change the odds for our children and families.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Pott Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Buddy Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Buddy Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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