· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of St Louis | $35,000 |
| Church of the Annunziata | $12,500 |
| Starkloff Disability Institute | $10,000 |
| Washington University Catholic Student Center | $10,000 |
| Loyola Academy of St Louis | $7,500 |
| St Joseph Institute for the Deaf | $5,000 |
| Kenrick-Glennon Society | $3,000 |
| SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation | $3,000 |
| St Louis Art Museum Foundation | $2,500 |
| The Garden Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Society of the Sacred Heart USA Province | $2,000 |
| Siteman Cancer Center | $2,000 |
| Order of Malta American Association | $1,950 |
| Missouri Historical Society | $1,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Annunziata RC Parish | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS5× · 2020–2024 · $113k · revenue +117%
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA4× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +29%
- SDSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- AOACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +153%
- COCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +35%
- KSKenrick-Glennon Seminaryone grant, 2021 · $3k
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The minneapolis institute of art (mia) enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world's diverse cultures.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Art Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 46 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds THE ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL HOME ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION 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 · 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
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 David A Blanton III Charitable Trust 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.