· Private foundation
The Fred M Kemp 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATI | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue -52%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $71k
- UCUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue -95%
Funded once
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +76%- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +69%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue ×16
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.
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.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Southwestern university, under the auspices of the united methodist church, is committed to undergraduate liberal arts education involving both the study of and participation in significant aspects of our cultural heritage, expressed…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The university's mission is to educate and advance communities of discovery to foster a healthier society.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THRIVE ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES FOR ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE WATERS ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fred M Kemp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred M Kemp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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