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The Voss Family Foundation at a glance

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The Voss 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.

$126k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$425kArts & Culture$22kHousing & Shelter$20kScience & Tech$20kReligion$12kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$6kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $113,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $126,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k9 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Variety The Childrens Charity$21,000
Missouri University of Science and Technology$20,000
Doorways$20,000
Chamber Music Society of St Louis Inc$12,000
Most Sacred Heart Catholic Church$11,000
United Way of Greater St. Louis$10,000
Fontbonne University$5,000
Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation$4,000
Big Muddy Dance Company$2,500
Grand Center Inc$2,500
National Conference for Community & Justice (NCCJ)$1,000
St. Louis Press Club$1,000
Southside Early Childhood Center$1,000
St. Louis Shakespeare Festival$1,000
Archdiocese of St Louis Annual Catholic Appeal$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $198k → 11%SEE ATTACHED: $182k → 11%SEE ATTACHED STMT A: $177k → 11%SEE ATTACHED: $152k → 11%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $134k → 11%SEE ATTACHED STMT B: $72k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
2
Upstream Theater

Upstream Theater is a professional production company dedicated to bringing a world of theater to St. Louis. We believe that art engages as much as it entertains and that by feeding the senses we feed the soul. Our goal is to move you and…

Arts & Culture
3
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities through the power and beauty of the art form; to foster the next generation by empowering a diverse group of artists,…

Arts & Culture
4
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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5
Teach St Louis

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…

Education
6
Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis

The muny is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to enrich lives by producing exceptional musical theatre accessible to all, continuing its remarkable tradition in forest park.

Arts & Culture
7
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
8
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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9
Stages

Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.

Arts & Culture
10
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the st. louis symphony orchestra (slso) is to enrich lives through the power of music. the slso provides orchestra concerts, community programs, and educational resources for the st. louis community and beyond.

Arts & Culture
11
Missouri Centers for Independent Living
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12
West End Players
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Shakespeare Festival; the most unlike its peers is The Michael D and Margaret Ann Latta Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $21,000 · OtherVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUISMissouri University of Science and Technology: $20,000 · OtherMissouri University of Science and TechnologyMost Sacred Heart Catholic Church: $11,000 · OtherMost Sacred Heart Catholic ChurchBig Muddy Dance Company: $2,500 · Other+3 more: $3,000 · OtherINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS: $20,000 · HealthINTERFAITH RESIDENCE…CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC S…GRAND CENTER INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureGRAND CENTER IN…ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS SHAKES…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …FOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFOX PERFORMING…FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$57,500Health$20,000Arts & Culture$15,500Philanthropy$14,000Education$5,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $21,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF ST LOUIS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONTBONNE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOX PERFORMING ARTS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Sam and Marilyn Fox F…Trio Foundation of St…Regional Cultural and…Edward Jones Foundati…Centene FoundationWorld Wide Technology…Employees Community F…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…
St Louis Community FoundationMO15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Voss Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Voss Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $198k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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