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The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust

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.

$101k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 27
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$918k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving20$101k10%
FY202323$110k9%
FY202222$109k32%
FY202122$99k36%
FY202027$152kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$126kArts & Culture$121kHuman Services$113kHealth$89kReligion$88kRecreation & Sports$22kEnvironment$10kInternational$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis: $112,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStarkloff Disability Institute: $41,200 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLoyola Academy of St Louis: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $16,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Art Museum Foundation: $10,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy of St Louis Academy of St Louis: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGateway Arch Park Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Order of Malta Pilgrimage Foundation: $3,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Library Foundation for the Benefit of St Louis Public Library: $3,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGolden Gate National Parks Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMother of Good Counsel Home: $950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Bakery Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States: $180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Royal Oak Foundation Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Louis Zoo Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $80 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 24.

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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 IncMO23.4× affinity9 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 · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Stephen F & Camilla T Brauer Charitable Trust · Ross Family Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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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About The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust

How much does The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust give?
The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $100,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Arts & Culture (21%), Human Services (20%).
Who are The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis ($113k), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra ($85k), Starkloff Disability Institute ($41k).
Does The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust 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 David A Blanton III Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc.
Where is The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust based?
The David A Blanton III Charitable Trust 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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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