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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.

$945k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$9.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Chod Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureScience & TechOther
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
FY2025still arriving36$770k8%
FY202428$559k4%
FY202328$609k0%
FY202229$548k0%
FY202129$632k7%
FY202034$665k0%
FY201932$774k9%
FY201833$736k21%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MHuman Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MHealth$870kReligion$700kHousing & Shelter$535kArts & Culture$351kPublic Safety & Disaster$315kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Saul Mirowitz Jewish School$1,727,50098%
Congregation Bnai Amoona$630,8007n/a
Jewish Community Center$546,87791%
Gateway to Hope$535,00095%
St Louis Police Foundation$225,00091%
St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation$159,00050%
The St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer$130,00096%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$90,00090%
Lift for Life Academy Inc$80,00080%
Congregation Temple Israel$64,0008n/a
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chod Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaul Mirowitz Jewish School: $1,727,500 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetJewish Community Center: $546,877 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetGateway to Hope: $535,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $225,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSt Louis Children's Hospital Foundation: $159,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer: $130,000 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLift for Life Academy Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJewish Family Services of St Louis: $45,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Saint Louis Zoo Association: $26,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Crown Center Inc: $25,180 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTender Heart Haven: $17,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPony Bird Inc: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMunicipal Theatre Association of St Louis: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDonald Danforth Plant Science Center: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBirthright Israel Foundation: $12,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis Arc Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Animal Sanctuary: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCardinal Glennon Children's Foundation: $6,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDuo Dogs Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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 Foundation IncMO27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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How do I get to The Chod Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Chod Family 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.

About The Chod Family Foundation

How much does The Chod Family Foundation give?
The Chod Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $945,080 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Chod Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (25%), Human Services (15%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are The Chod Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Saul Mirowitz Jewish School ($1.7M), Congregation Bnai Amoona ($631k), Jewish Community Center ($547k).
Does The Chod Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chod Family 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 Chod Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation, Youthbridge Community Foundation.
Where is The Chod Family Foundation based?
The Chod Family 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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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