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The Chod Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $630k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF ST LOUIS | $175,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $80,000 |
| GATEWAY TO HOPE | $75,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ST LOUIS MENS GROUP AGAINST CANCER | $45,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI AMOONA | $40,000 |
| CROWN CENTER | $25,180 |
| NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES | $19,800 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $726k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SMSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +0%
- GTGATEWAY TO HOPE9× · 2017–2025 · $535k · revenue +274%
- SLSt Louis Police Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CGCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +72%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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…
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Tender Heart Haven. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of St Louis ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS MEN'S GROUP AGAINST CANCER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CROWN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds TENDER HEART HAVEN ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds PONY BIRD INC ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Millstone Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · The Harold & Ethel Horowitz Family Charitable Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation
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 Chod Family 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.
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.
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