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The Floy L and Paul F Cornelsen Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of THE FLOY L AND PAUL F CORNELSEN CHARITABLE 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VILLA DUCHESNE AND OAK HILL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $92,000 |
| THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS7× · 2017–2023 · $300k · revenue +300%
DePauw University4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +33%- HSHOME SWEET HOME3× · 2019–2022 · $160k · revenue +219%
Funded once
- MMMINISTRY MENTORS PILOT PROGRAM EXPANSIONone grant, 2018 · $27k
- LALOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +78%
- DBDAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCHone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +14%
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 promote positive change for missouri's children and families by supporting the operations of lutheran family and children's services of missouri in the communities they serve.
Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.
Our little haven's primary purpose is to assess, treat and heal the youngest victims of child abuse and neglect and those children suffering from mental health issues. our little haven's treatment provides a community based, early…
Our mission is to break the cycle of child abuse by empowering children, families and communities.
Inspired by the jewish tradition to make the world a better place, jfs helps and supports people in need to meet their challenges. through a comprehensive range of services, including a food pantry, older adult services, clinical services,…
Lutheran counseling and family services of wisconsin provides faith-based mental health counseling, family life education and adoption services.
Lutheran child and family services of illinois (agency) is a nonprofit statewide social service agency whose mission is to attract, develop, mobilize, and prvoide resources to improve the well-being of children, individuals, families,…
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
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…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To ensure that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are provided with the best options and opportunities to live safely, work productively, explore creatively, learn continuously and play pleasurably throughout their…
Engaging and empowering families and community with love, compassion, faith, and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foster Care Coalition of Greater St Louis and the most unlike its peers is The Mighty Oakes Heart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA BOYS AND GIRLS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
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: World Wide Technology Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Pott Foundation · The Neeb Family Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Floy L and Paul F Cornelsen Charitable 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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