· Private foundation
The Finerty Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $294k
- $250k+1 grant · $366k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY | $366,470 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $105,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $84,446 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SITEMAN CENTER - ILLUMINATION GALA | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $21,000 |
| MAGIC HOUSE | $20,000 |
| RUNG | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $15,000 |
| WEBSTER ARTS | $10,000 |
| HEINZL PASTORIAL MEMORIAL FUND | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS MUNICIPAL OPERA | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +29%
- GRGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $228k · revenue +248%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $211k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- WGWEBSTER GROVES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $44k
- USUSS ST LOUIS COMMISSIONING COMMITTEEone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USAgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +29%
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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,…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 70 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 SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WEBSTER ARTS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
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: Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · World Wide Technology Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis
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 Finerty Family 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.