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The Crawford Taylor 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.

$54M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$95MHealth$60MEnvironment$33MEducation$28MCommunity Improvement$28MRecreation & Sports$17MScience & Tech$8.2MAnimals$5.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $650k
  • $250k+16 grants · $53M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$772M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION$16,000,000
ST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL$15,000,000
KID SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING$5,000,000
ST LOUIS ZOO$5,000,000
SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS$2,475,000
MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS$1,540,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,468,191
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC$1,350,000
OUR LITTLE HAVEN$1,000,000
NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE MAGIC HOUSE$700,000
GATEWAY TO HOPE$500,000
FOREST PARK FOREVER INC$500,000
ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION$500,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC$300,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNLIMITED PLAY INC: $100k → 5%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $10k → 11%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $25k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $25k → 21%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $25k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $6k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%SNEAKERS WITH SOUL: $10k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $30k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $15k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%ST LOUIS ARC INC: $100k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $75k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 11%PROSPERITY CONNECTION: $10k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250M · 69 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
47

Total granted

$250M
$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+3%

Still filing today

90%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $33M · revenue +73% · 52% of their budget
  • SL
    SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $31M · revenue +72% · 49% of their budget
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2024 · $30M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • CG
    CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10M · revenue +3%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5.0M · revenue +76%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -50%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
2
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
3
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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5
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals
6
St Louis Sports Commission Inc

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.

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7
Jewish Federation of St Louis

Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.

Philanthropy
8
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
9
Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services
10
St Louis Art Museum Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture
11
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
12
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; the most unlike its peers is Peeps Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 122 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/107
Grantees still filing
66/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,967,391 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETYSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30,800,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $11,710,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF …THE MAGIC HOUSE: $3,550,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $6,815,000 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $12,278,598 · OtherTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF…CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 · OtherCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S F…FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WWII MEMORIAL: $8,999,999 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WWII …THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500,000 · OtherTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATIO…KID SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING: $5,000,000 · OtherKID SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNINGST LOUIS ZOO: $5,000,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $4,750,000 · OtherThe Tower Grove Park Foundati…OUR LITTLE HAVEN: $3,500,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $3,250,000 · OtherCARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREP HIGH SCHOOL: $3,000,000 · Other+65 more: $13,714,200 · Other+65 moreST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'…ST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS: $16,000,000 · HealthST LUKES EPISCOPAL…+10 more: $2,027,500 · HealthMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $20,075,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANICA…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $12,700,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FO…Forest Park Forever Inc: $11,170,000 · EnvironmentForest Park Forev…+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $24,560,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT RIV…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000,000 · EducationBIOSTL: $1,600,000 · Education+8 more: $536,800 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $4,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $250,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $143,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$85,842,391Other$75,992,797Health$48,027,500Environment$43,950,000Community Improvement$24,560,000Education$7,136,800Youth Development$4,393,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,967,391 over 4y, 52% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $30,800,000 over 8y, 49% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: $24,560,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $20,075,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LUKES EPISCOPAL-PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALS: $16,000,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $12,700,000 over 7y, 61% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS: $12,278,598 over 8y, 34% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $11,710,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $11,170,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $10,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $4,750,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $4,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $3,550,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetOUR LITTLE HAVEN: $3,500,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $3,250,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $2,500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $2,500,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,875,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBIOSTL: $1,600,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetTHE LUMINARY INC: $1,050,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetST LOUIS ARC INC: $800,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE: $590,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetCONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS: $590,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $560,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHURCHILL CENTER AND SCHOOL FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE: $425,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY: $400,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCOUNTERPUBLIC: $300,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $250,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetTHE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSE IN EBSWORTH PARK: $175,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREADY READERS: $160,800 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetClayton Education Foundation: $140,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMETRO THEATER COMPANY: $135,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCITY PARKS ALLIANCE INC: $124,700 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetDE LA SALLE INC: $120,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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 Fo…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Edward Jones Foundati…Centene FoundationMoneta Group Charitab…Employees Community F…Pott FoundationTrio Foundation of St…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO97.3× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pott Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Crawford Taylor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crawford Taylor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Crawford Taylor Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Crawford Taylor 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.

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 122 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home