· Public charity
The St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer
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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.
The 21 grants below total $441,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $494,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ST LOUIS | $110,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNITVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $105,000 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST - CANCER TREATMENT CENTER (FALLER) | $25,000 |
| THE BREAKFAST CLUB INC | $20,000 |
| THE EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (TEN) | $15,000 |
| SSM CARDINAL GLENNON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE DECEMBER 5TH FUND | $15,000 |
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY - KIDS ROCK CANCER | $15,000 |
| HAMSA WELLNESS COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER (LIVER- RAY) | $10,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION - KCMO | $10,000 |
| HAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| FOOD OUTREACH | $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 (FY17–25, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 19 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $686k · revenue +76%- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +108%
- MUMaryville University - St Louis9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- MBMISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +48%
- TSTHE SONG SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITYone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Tata Sisterhood Foundation. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 48 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 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE EMPOWEREDMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DECEMBER 5TH FUND ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKFAST CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITALS EAST COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds HAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SSM HEALTH FOUNDATION - ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK OF GREATER ST ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSHUAS GREAT THINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUNG CANCER CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SONG SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ↗
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 · Edward Jones Foundation · The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Washington University · Dotopia · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Missouri Baptist Healthcare 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 St Louis Men's Group Against Cancer 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% 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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