· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SSM HEALTH CARDINAL GLENNON | $25,000 |
| PARAQUAD | $25,000 |
| TEN8PROJECT | $15,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOC | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $10,000 |
| BACKSTOPPERS INC ST LOUIS CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $7,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS | $7,500 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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.
60 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +117%
- GRGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +88%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ECEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +6%
- UOUSO OF MISSOURIone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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 31 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 92 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 PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds ALL SECURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Polo Players Support Group Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ten8 Project ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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 · 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
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 Von Gontard Family 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.
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.