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The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital

THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL helps donors enrich lives, and transform patient care through charitable gifts.

$54M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$324MHealth$3.2MHuman Services$2.4MPhilanthropy$818kArts & Culture$650kCommunity Improvement$500kFood & Nutrition$400kYouth Development$100kReligion$50kOther$52M
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $388k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $515k
  • $250k+7 grants · $52M
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$928M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$44,979,956
BARNES - JEWISH HOSPITAL$4,637,657
BJC HOME CARE SERVICES$1,330,257
THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION$650,000
BJC HEATLH SYSTEM DBA BJC HEALTHCARE$326,000
BARNES JEWISH WEST COUNTY HOSPITAL$298,952
PEDAL THE CAUSE$250,000
HAVEN HOUSE$80,000
VOYCE$75,000
ST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM$60,000
CASA DE SALUD$50,000
ROOM AT THE INN$50,000
BRIDGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES$50,000
ST PATRICK CENTER$50,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 8%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $10k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $30k → 21%BUILD-A-BEAR FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $35k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $25k → 21%OUR LADY'S INN: $20k → 11%OUR LADY'S INN: $10k → 11%OASIS - ST LOUIS: $40k → 21%OUR LADY'S INN: $10k → 11%HUMANITRI: $20k → 21%HUMANITRI: $15k → 21%HUMANITRI: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $73k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $68k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS: $68k → 11%COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES: $50k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $200k → 21%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST LOUIS: $40k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $100k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $100k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $100k → 21%SERVICES BY DESIGN DBA CARING SOLUTIONS: $30k → 11%SERVICES BY DESIGN DBA CARING SOLUTIONS: $30k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST LOUIS: $15k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST LOUIS: $15k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST LOUIS: $10k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $25k → 21%OASIS INSTITUTE: $101k → 11%OASIS INSTITUTE: $99k → 11%FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS: $100k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $250k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $200k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $200k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $200k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$381M · 40 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
23

Total granted

$381M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $857k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $323M · revenue +76%
  • PT
    PEDAL THE CAUSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +75%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $701k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -82%
  • GR
    GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +27%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +65%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
Nazareth Living Center

In the tradition of the sisters of st. joseph of carondelet and in partnership with benedictine, nazareth living center participates in the healing ministry of jesus ministering with compassion and responding creatively to the needs of…

Health
3
Behavioral Health Network of Greater St

Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.

Health
4
Living Community of St Joseph

We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…

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5
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
6
St Charles Health System Inc

To own, manage and operate hospitals in Central Oregon, as well as the care of sick, injured and infirm and the carrying on, participation in and sponsorship of health-related services and activities in the communities.

Health
7
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
8
Gateway Homeless Services Inc

To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…

Human Services
9
Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services
10
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
11
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Health Equipment Lending Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Red Circle. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr17%19%35–55yr19%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%1%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr17%0%35–55yr19%85%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/74
the rest of the field
14%
1,453/10,083

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
43/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $323,284,765 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY+5 more — $817,860 · EducationBARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL — $40,820,380 · OtherBARNES JEWISH H…BJC HOME CARE SERVICES — $9,008,180 · OtherBJC HOME CARE S…+25 more — $2,830,518 · Other+25 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500,000 · HealthHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS — $406,000 · HealthBJC HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BJC HEALTHCARE — $382,515 · HealthCASA DE SALUD — $300,000 · HealthST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INC — $258,000 · HealthINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $250,000 · HealthGATEWAY TO HOPE — $175,000 · HealthGENERATE HEALTH STL — $150,000 · HealthTHE BREAKFAST CLUB INC — $140,000 · HealthProvident Inc — $129,793 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $122,000 · Health+9 more — $431,605 · HealthPEDAL THE CAUSE — $1,350,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS — $259,000 · Human ServicesTHE OASIS INSTITUTE — $240,482 · Human ServicesFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS — $100,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $80,000 · Human Services+9 more — $357,500 · Human ServicesJewish Federation of St Louis — $450,000 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $200,000 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $67,660 · PhilanthropyTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION — $650,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Community Improvement
Education$324,102,625Other$52,659,078Health$3,244,913Human Services$2,386,982Philanthropy$817,660Arts & Culture$650,000Community Improvement$500,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $323,284,765 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $1,350,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $701,360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION — $650,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJewish Federation of St Louis — $450,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS — $406,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetBJC HEALTH SYSTEM DBA BJC HEALTHCARE — $382,515 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC — $300,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCASA DE SALUD — $300,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetVOYCE — $299,500 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS — $259,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetST LOUIS HEALTH EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM INC — $258,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $250,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS — $250,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE OASIS INSTITUTE — $240,482 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE — $175,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGENERATE HEALTH STL — $150,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE BREAKFAST CLUB INC — $140,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetHARRIS HOUSE FOUNDATION — $135,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetProvident Inc — $129,793 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $122,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUO DOGS INC — $100,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $100,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH PROTECTION AND EDUCATION SERVICE — $85,250 over 3y, 16% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH IN PARTNERSHIP SERVICES (CHIPS) — $75,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPREVENTED — $68,380 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $67,660 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSERVICES BY DESIGN DBA CARING SOLUTIONS — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHUMANITRI — $50,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBRIDGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetRoom at the Inn — $50,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAlive Inc — $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetOUR LADYS INN — $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS — $36,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetASSISI HOUSE — $35,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Washington UniversityEmployees Community F…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…Centene FoundationSt Louis Philanthropi…Pott FoundationYouthbridge Community…Edward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO83.4× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Washington University · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital?

    Find your warmest path to The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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