· Private foundation
The Donald H & Mary Jane Buchanan 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of THE DONALD H & MARY JANE BUCHANAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
- $250k+1 grant · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $291,588 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON HOSPITAL | $86,647 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $86,647 |
| LIFEWISE STL | $43,295 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $28,901 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $20,197 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $17,352 |
| LEMAY CHILD & FAMILY CENTER | $17,352 |
| THE SMILE TRAIN | $14,451 |
| MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION | $8,648 |
| ANGELS' ARMS | $8,648 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST MO | $8,591 |
| BOYS & GIRLS TOWN OF MISSOURI | $5,803 |
| SUNSHINE MINISTRIES | $5,803 |
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 (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KHKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL4× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +29%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS5× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +45%
- SLST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $6k
- KCKeeter Center for Character Edone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION OF ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
Providing a safe home, compassionate care and high-quality mental health services to children and youth who have experienced significant trauma, to restore their childhood and equip them to productive adulthood.
To empower homeless mothers and their children to heal from their trauma and become self-sufficient.
High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…
The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
Good Samaritan Boys Ranch is on a mission to confront the forces that push families into foster care and transform the systems that fail youth as they leave it through a spectrum of residential and community-based services that bring…
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
City union mission is an evangelical christian ministry committed to sharing the gospel and meeting the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of men, women, and children who are poor and/or homeless in kansas city.
To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer
The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lemay Child and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Megan Meier Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 27 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 KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' ARMS ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SPECIAL SPORTSMAN ALLIANCE I ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Donald H & Mary Jane Buchanan 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.
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.
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