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The J W & Mildred a Kisling 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: 64% of THE J W & MILDRED A KISLING 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
- Under $10k35 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TODAY & TOMORROW EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HOLY SPIRIT RADIO FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE BACKSTOPPERS | $2,000 |
| OUR LITTLE HAVEN | $2,000 |
| ONE CLASSROOM- ST LOUIS CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE | $2,000 |
| ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ST MARTHAS HALL | $1,500 |
| CIRCLE OF CONCERNS | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| GOODWILLMERS | $1,000 |
| DELTA GAMA CENTER THE CHILDREN WVISUAL IMPAIRMENT | $1,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
54 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- HSHOLY SPIRIT RADIO FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +122%
- TBTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +68%
- SLST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CRCAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -24%
- LHLydia's House Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +35%
- NLNEW LIFE EVANGELISTIC CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 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.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Casa of st. louis advocates for abused and neglected children and youth in st. louis by representing their best interests in court and in the community. our vision is that every child lives in a safe permanent home and has the opportunity…
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
Inspired by jesus christ, st patrick apartments, inc. assists cardinal ritter senior services in providing compassionate care through a continuum of high quality residential healthcare and supportive social services. we bring the mission…
To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.
Setting a new standard of employment for people who have disabilities and chronic medical conditions.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is No Woman Left Behind Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 63 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 HOLY SPIRIT RADIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds NO WOMAN LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST MARTHA'S HALL ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS TAX ASSISTANCE PROGR ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTOPHERS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Tsf
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 J W & Mildred a Kisling 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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