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The Catherine Manley Gaylord 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.

$207k
Granted FY2023
16
Itemized grants FY2023
16
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$182k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Youth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEducationReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202316$182k25%
FY202217$174k53%
FY202112$129kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$190kHealth$90kArts & Culture$75kEducation$64kRecreation & Sports$21kHousing & Shelter$18kCommunity Improvement$10kReligion$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc$80,00020%
Ride on St Louis Inc$40,00026%
Jefferson National Parks Association$25,00020%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri$20,00020%
Peter & Paul Community Services Inc$17,50030%
St Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts$15,00027%
Great Rivers Greenway Foundation$10,00010%
Logos Inc$10,00020%
John Austin Cheley Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Elca Youth Ministry Network$5,30020%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRide on St Louis Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetJefferson National Parks Association: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPeter & Paul Community Services Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts: $15,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetGreat Rivers Greenway Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLogos Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJohn Austin Cheley Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetElca Youth Ministry Network: $5,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…Edward Jones Foundati…Edward Jones Foundati…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…St Louis Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…
St Louis Community FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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About The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation

How much does The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation give?
The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $182,350, out of $207,350 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Youth Development (22%), Health (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc ($80k), Ride on St Louis Inc ($40k), Jefferson National Parks Association ($25k).
Does The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Catherine Manley Gaylord 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 Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, Edward Jones Foundation.
Where is The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation based?
The Catherine Manley Gaylord Foundation is based in MO.

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 25 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $154k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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