· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (FY18–24, $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 its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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.
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 10 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lighthouse for the Blind funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lighthouse for the Blind. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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