Missouri · Private foundation
The Von Gontard Family 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.
- $248k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations The Von Gontard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $248k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $214k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $230k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $230k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $193k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $185k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paraquad Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis | $57,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Great Rivers Habitat Alliance | $57,500 | 6 | 5% |
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $37,500 | 6 | 0% |
| All Secure Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($559k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Von Gontard Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Boniface Foundation · St Louis Office for Developmental Disability Resources · Hermann Family Foundation · Berges Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Von Gontard Family Foundation
- How much does The Von Gontard Family Foundation give?
- The Von Gontard Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $247,560 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Von Gontard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Human Services (10%), Environment (10%).
- Who are The Von Gontard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Paraquad Inc ($110k), Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis ($58k), Great Rivers Habitat Alliance ($58k).
- Does The Von Gontard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Von Gontard Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Von Gontard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc.
- Where is The Von Gontard Family Foundation based?
- The Von Gontard Family Foundation is based in MO.
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