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The Cg 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Health$7kReligion$6kEnvironment$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$3kEducation$2kScience & Tech$2kArts & Culture$750Other$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
4
States reached
$177k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$1,000
MISSOURI CONSERVATION SOCIETY$1,000
RAINFOREST TRUST$750
BLOODWATER$500
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$500
ST VINCENT DE PAUL - IMMACOLATA$500
ANNUNZIATA ST VINCENT DE PAUL$500
LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION$500
THE DONALD DANFORTH PLANT CENTER$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$500
ALS ASSOCIATION$500
NAMI ST LOUIS$250
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $767 → 15%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $500 → 15%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $500 → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $250 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MA
NJ
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24k · 16 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$24k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+115%

Still filing today

50%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalReligionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +22%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +74%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • A
    ALS
    one grant, 2023 · $500
  • DA
    DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE OF Saint Louisgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +115%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
Jewish Family Services of St Louis

Inspired by the jewish tradition to make the world a better place, jfs helps and supports people in need to meet their challenges. through a comprehensive range of services, including a food pantry, older adult services, clinical services,…

Human Services
3
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
4
Saint Louis Counseling Inc

The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…

5
Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
6
St Louis Life

To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.

Housing & Shelter
7
St Louis Art Museum Foundation

The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.

Arts & Culture
8
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
9
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
10
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
11
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals
12
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSOURI CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $3,500 · OtherMISSOURI CONSERVATION SOCIETYST VINCENT DE PAUL - IMMACOLATA — $3,000 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAUL - IMMACOLATAFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS — $1,500 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSTHE DONALD DANFORTH PLANT CENTER — $1,500 · OtherTHE DONALD DANFORTH PLANT CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $750 · OtherBLOODWATER — $750 · OtherANNUNZIATA ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $750 · Other+8 more — $3,300 · Other+8 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…THE JED FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATIONNAMI St Louis — $750 · HealthNAMI St LouisAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $500 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERA…DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE OF Saint Louis — $500 · HealthDEPRESSION AND BIP…Little Sisters of The Poor — $2,017 · Human ServicesLittle Sist…THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE …OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $2,500 · Food & NutritionOPERATION…RAINFOREST TRUST — $1,750 · InternationalTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 · EducationSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $500 · Religion
Other$15,050Health$4,750Human Services$3,017Food & Nutrition$2,500International$1,750Education$1,000Religion$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of The Poor — $2,017 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI St Louis — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE OF Saint Louis — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
  • Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST
  • Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY
  • Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NAMI St Louis
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN
  • Who funds DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE OF Saint Louis
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Cg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Cg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Cg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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