· Private foundation
The William Gerald Willett Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $354k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| CHRISTINE WILLETT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SAINT JEROME CHURCH | $100,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $53,627 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS | $40,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS | $35,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| THE MISSION CONTINUES | $25,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY - SHARE OUR STRENGTH | $25,000 |
| LYDIA'S HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI | $15,000 |
| DOGS FOR OUR BRAVE | $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 (FY19–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- TOTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $262k · revenue +20%
Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $260k · revenue +36%- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI6× · 2019–2024 · $223k · revenue +41%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -7%- RRRandy's Rescue Ranchone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The mission of Open Door Animal Sanctuary is to provide homeless cats and dogs with highest quality of life and a second chance to find a forever family. Open door is currently one of the largest no-kill shelters in the Greater St. Louis…
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
The mission of take paws rescue is to meet the moral obligation to protect and save the lives of pets in need of rescue in louisiana. take paws rescue enacts this mission by pulling pets from rural and high kill shelters and preparing them…
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
To champion homeless cats and dogs who are healthy or treatable in the quest to find their forever homes and engage with our community to provide responsible pet ownership reducing future generations of homeless animals.
We are a dog rescue organization dedicated to saving homeless, abused and neglected german shepherds and mixes, and to preventing homelessness and cruelty to animals.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Columbia Second Chance. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds Dogs For Our Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION CONTINUES ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Randy's Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds THE FALLEN SPARROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVEN CHANCE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI FORGET-ME-NOT HORSE RESCUE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Fancy Cats Rescue Team Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBANY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA SECOND CHANCE ↗
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 · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Greater Good Charities · Sandberg Phoenix & Von Gontard Charitable Foundation Inc · Pott Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 William Gerald Willett Charitable 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.
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