· Private foundation
The Clark-Fox Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNLEASHING POTENTIAL | $12,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| THE LEGACY CENTER STL | $8,000 |
| GENE SLAYS BOYS CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC | $7,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,170 |
| CULTURAL LEADERSHIP | $6,000 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $6,000 |
| THE SOPHIA PROJECT | $5,500 |
| ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS | $5,442 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER- ST LOUIS | $4,350 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC | $4,000 |
| LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK | $3,750 |
| CONSUMING KINETICS DANCE COMPANY | $3,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +30%
- GSGENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +47%
NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- SKSmart Kids Incone grant, 2022 · $3k
- FUFONTBONNE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -78%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
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 provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
Girls on the run of st. louis (gotr-stl) inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun experienced base curriculum which integrates running. gotr-stl is a health and wellness program for girls in grades 3-8.
Economic development.
The mission of st. louis voices academy of media arts is to leverage media arts and storytelling to equip students with the agency to excel academically, author their own futures, and make meaningful contributions in their communities.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
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.
Cinema st. louis engages the st. louis region through educational programs, cultural connectivity, and curated film exhibitions.
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…
Provide special education to children with disabilities.
Provide an interactive learning environment for children to foster imagination and creativity while inspiring life-long learning
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Activity Center and the most unlike its peers is Watering Advancing Youth Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 108 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Sophia Project Inc ↗
- Who funds GIFTED RESOURCE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds BETTER FAMILY LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACK DANCE ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY CENTER STL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAYSPRING ARTS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds PIANOS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS HARMONY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Centene Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology 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 Clark-Fox 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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