· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC | $6,000 |
| CULTURAL LEADERSHIP | $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 |
| GOOD JOURNEY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
- FUFONTBONNE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -78%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds PACK DANCE ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY CENTER STL ↗
- Who funds DAYSPRING ARTS & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds MATHEWS-DICKEY BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB ↗
- Who funds PIANOS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds CIRCUS HARMONY ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Clark-Fox Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Clark-Fox Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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