· Public charity
The Lighthouse for the Blind
To assist individuals who are legally blind maintain dignity and independence by making available employment, education, and support services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $593,073 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,314,584 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $721,511 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $404k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINDSEYE RADIO | $199,611 |
| DELTA GAMMA CENTER FOR CHILDREN WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS | $149,651 |
| ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $54,392 |
| US SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER | $38,234 |
| SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSTITY | $37,500 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $37,500 |
| ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $28,785 |
| MO COUNCIL OF THE BLIND | $27,000 |
| GREATER REGION YMCA | $10,400 |
| ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $577k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- DGDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis7× · 2018–2024 · $955k · revenue +48%
- MRMindsEye Radio7× · 2018–2024 · $567k · revenue +61% · 31% of their budget
- MCMissouri Council of the Blind7× · 2018–2024 · $164k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- GRGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
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 enhance the student-athletes' educational process through intercollegiate competitive activity encompassing the rules of fairness based on the highest standards of integrity and sportsmanlike conduct.
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…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Support childhood literacy
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
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 provide social, charitable, athletic, and educational opportunities for members and friends of the Deaf in the metropolitan St Louis area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is Missouri Council of the Blind. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 Delta Gamma Center for Children with Vis ↗
- Who funds MindsEye Radio ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Missouri Council of the Blind ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lighthouse for the Blind 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.