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The Holekamp 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,650 |
| FAMILY FORWARD | $25,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ROSSMAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| PEACE CENTER | $3,500 |
| SHOW-ME INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| FATHERS & FAMILIES SUPPORT CENTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CEDARS CAMP | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ARTISPHERE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CCCHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +68%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI8× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +2%
- CACITY ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (WHARTON FUND)one grant, 2017 · $25k
- JBJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +62%
- ESEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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,…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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 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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sherwood Forest Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Workshop. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 66 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 CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SHOW-ME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PEACE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD BIRD SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds DIRKS FUND ↗
- Who funds Brace for Impact 46 Inc ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI INC ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Holekamp 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
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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