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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$380MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$950kHousing & Shelter$540kCommunity Improvement$500kEducation$452kFood & Nutrition$416kPhilanthropy$183kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FOOD OUTREACH INC$50,000
BRIDGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES$50,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$50,000
ST PATRICK CENTER$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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%
+5%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +36%
  • 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
Build Missouri Health

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

Human Services
12
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Health Equipment Lending Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
44/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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