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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
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $182,350, the rows itemized in this filing. The $207,350 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis$35,000
Ride on St. Louis$20,000
Jefferson National Parks Association$15,000
Boys Hope Girls Hope$15,000
Delta Gamma Cnt for Children with Visual Impairments$15,000
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art$15,000
Washington University Institute of Public Health$15,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri$10,000
Loyola Academy of Saint Louis$10,000
Peter and Paul Community Services$7,500
Saint Louis University - GatewayGIS Campers$5,600
Logos School$5,000
A Thousand Summers$5,000
St. Ann School$5,000
Airversity Drone Pilot Academy$2,700
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$378k · 14 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against -60% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$378k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
-60%

Still filing today

64%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RO
    RIDE ON ST LOUIS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +118%
  • JN
    JEFFERSON NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +7%
  • PP
    PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • MB
    Mathew-Dickeys Boys/Girls Clubs
    one grant, 2021 · $45k
  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -60%
  • PC
    Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

03Its 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
St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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2
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
3
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement
4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle Inc

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. the organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.

Youth Development
5
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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6
The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council

See schedule o.the greater st. louis arts and education council (the arts and education council or the council) was the st. louis region's only united arts fund that pooled together donations from individuals, foundations and corporations…

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7
Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services
8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Indiana Inc

The big brothers big sisters mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
9
Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc

Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.

Environment
10
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc

Create and support mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. In 2024, we served 2,649 children and youth in the 11-county Metro Atlanta area. The mentoring relationship has a profound impact on young people, often…

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11
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.

Crime & Legal
12
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri; the most unlike its peers is St Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the 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 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mathew-Dickeys Boys/Girls Clubs: $45,000 · OtherMathew-Dickeys Boys/Girls ClubsBoys Hope Girls Hope: $40,000 · OtherBoys Hope Girls HopeDelta Gamma Cnt for Children with Visual Impairments: $35,000 · OtherDelta Gamma Cnt for Children with Visual ImpairmentsMuseum of Contemporary Religious Art: $35,000 · OtherMuseum of Contemporary Religious ArtLoyola Academy of Saint Louis: $30,000 · OtherLoyola Academy of Saint LouisBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $20,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURIWashington University Institute of Public Health: $15,000 · OtherSt. Ann School: $15,000 · OtherJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $42,550 · Other+9 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS…RIDE ON ST LOUIS INC: $40,000 · HealthRIDE ON S…JEFFERSON NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON…ST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS …PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementLOGOS INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$287,550Youth Development$80,000Health$40,000Arts & Culture$40,000Housing & Shelter$17,500Community Improvement$10,000Education$10,000

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

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
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.

  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds RIDE ON ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOGOS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELCA YOUTH MINISTRY NETWORK ↗

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 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.

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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