How much did THE CLARK-FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE CLARK-FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

chapelyouthcampscience

2019

chapelcampsyouthkidssciencecamp

2020

science

2021

youthgatewaycampeducation

2022

kidscampeducation

2023

campeducation

2024

youthgatewaycampeducation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k45 grants · $129k
$10k–50k2 grants · $22k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$452k

Total assets

Largest grants

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
GATEWAY REGIONAL YMCA$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
SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION$3,000
CONSUMING KINETICS DANCE COMPANY$3,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$767k · 75 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

75 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$767k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+16%

Still filing today

51%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

GI
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS
7× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +16%
GS
GENE SLAYS BOYS CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +19%
MU
MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY OF ST LOUIS
7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +34%

Funded once

BG
BOYS & GILS CLUB OF GREATER ST LOUIS
one grant, 2023 · $8k
SK
SMART KIDS INC
one grant, 2022 · $3k
FU
FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -78%

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.

Art Saint Louis

Creating and presenting original exhibitions, educational programming and support services.

Arts & Culture

St Louis University

To seek excellence in teaching, research, health care, and service to the community as guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the society of jesus.

Education

Freedom Arts and Education Center

Freedom Arts and Education Center creates artistic academic and advancement opportunities to feed heal and teach the youth of St. Louis. Since 2012 we have supported youth through accessible community arts programs educational resources…

Arts & Culture

St Louis Learning Disabilities

Children need hope, understanding, and compassion to learn and reach their potential. the st. louis learning disabilities association (lda) helps children by giving them the education and support necessary to be successful.

Human Services

Girls On the Run of St Louis

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.

Youth Development

Academy of St Louis

Provide special education to children with disabilities.

Education

Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement

St Louis Economic Development

Economic development.

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Kairos Academies

Kairos academies is a public charter school located in st. louis, missouri leveraging a personalized learning curriculum, one-to-one academic coaching model, and a restorative justice approach to social emotional development.

Education

St Louis Language Immersion School

To provide a bilingual, culturally responsive, transformational education that enriches the children of st. louis city.

Education

The St Louis Children's Choirs

Shaping young lives through musical excellence.

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The Greater St Louis

To provide support for the arts in the st. louis region through grants, full service collaborative office facility, and public awareness.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Activity Center and the most unlike its peers is St Louis Shakespeare Festival. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/61

the rest of the field

12%

1,244/10,096

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.

05the grantee network

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

53/57

Grantees still filing

40/57

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$451,385Youth Development$115,750Education$90,275Human Services$73,372Arts & Culture$71,725Animals$16,000Community Improvement$12,000

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO70× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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 · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Centene Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Employees of Community Fund · The Greater St Louis

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE SOPHIA PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 455604418 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE SOPHIA PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Clark-Fox Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Clark-Fox Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE CLARK-FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Clark-Fox Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE CLARK-FOX FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Clark-Fox Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph