· Private foundation
The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k122 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $402k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $628k
- $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION | $3,020,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $138,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $78,908 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,100 |
| CONCORDANCE ACADEMY - NONCASH | $59,819 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - NONCASH | $59,370 |
| THE MUNY - NONCASH | $55,522 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS - NONCASH | $50,977 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION - NONCASH | $50,200 |
| LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK - NONCASH | $49,983 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS - NONCASH | $40,254 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS - NONCASH | $26,083 |
| ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM | $25,682 |
| ST LOUIS HISTORY MUSEUM - NONCASH | $25,175 |
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 (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 119 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- TKTHE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $8.7M · revenue +10% · 48% of their budget
- LSLAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK6× · 2017–2024 · $228k · revenue +9%
- CACONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS4× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- KLKARA LOVE PROJECT - CASH AND NONCASHone grant, 2020 · $986k
- SLST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY - NONCASHone grant, 2022 · $198k
- SLST LOUIS ART PLACE INITIATIVE - NONCASHone grant, 2020 · $143k
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.
The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.
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.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Economic development.
As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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).
Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimaginging the possibilities of art in public life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kara Love Project. 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 262 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE KRANZBERG ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GRAND CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE SAINT LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PHOTO ART & SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Centene Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
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 Kranzberg Family 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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