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The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$532k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$8.3MArts & Culture$6.3MHealth$5.8MEnvironment$3.9MHuman Services$2.1MYouth Development$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.6MScience & Tech$1.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $441k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.2M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$77M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$531,505
FOREST PARK FOREVER$500,000
ST LOUIS ZOO$450,000
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN$393,807
MICDS$393,807
ST LUKE'S HEALTH CORPORATION$393,807
FOSTER & ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY SOCIETY$236,284
ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER$236,284
ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM$189,027
ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$186,520
YALE UNIVERSITY$157,523
ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$157,523
THE SAINT LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY$125,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HAVEN HOUSE: $50k → 9%HAVEN HOUSE: $50k → 9%HAVEN HOUSE: $20k → 9%HAVEN HOUSE: $15k → 9%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $50k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $50k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $40k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $25k → 11%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $20k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%OUR LADY'S INN: $20k → 11%OUR LADY'S INN: $15k → 11%OUR LADY'S INN: $15k → 11%ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION: $30k → 11%ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $100k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $75k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $75k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $50k → 11%PROMISE COMMUNITY HOMES: $50k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $50k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $25k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $25k → 11%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $25k → 11%CIRCLE OF CONCERN: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CT
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
OK
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 70 repeat orgs$638k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

70 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
17

Total granted

$36M
$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-11%

Still filing today

67%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +20%
  • MI
    Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +84%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +313%

Funded once

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SAINT LOUIS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • RT
    Ranken Technical Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • U4
    UNITED 4 CHILDREN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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3
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
4
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
5
St Louis Life

To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.

Housing & Shelter
6
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
7
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals
8
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement
9
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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11
St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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12
St Luke's Health Foundation of Sioux City Iowa

To enhance the quality of life for the people of the siouxland region by obtaining funds in support of the health-care mission of st. luke's health system.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

62 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. 62 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKES HEALTH CORPORATION: $2,423,907 · OtherST LUKES HEALTH CORPORATIONST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER: $1,454,347 · OtherST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTERST LOUIS ZOO: $1,300,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOST LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $1,163,475 · OtherST LOUIS ART MUSEUMST LOUIS SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $1,082,518 · OtherST LOUIS SYMPHONY SOCIETYYALE UNIVERSITY: $969,562 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYROSSMAN SCHOOL: $846,956 · OtherFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $830,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · OtherGREAT CIRCLE: $700,000 · OtherST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS: $674,566 · OtherWINGS OF HOPE: $725,000 · Other+41 more: $5,220,168 · Other+41 moreMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $3,223,907 · EducationMary Institute an…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $784,780 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVER…MIRIAM FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationMIRIAM FOUNDATIONMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $295,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INC: $290,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $258,550 · EducationCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $195,000 · Education+6 more: $325,000 · Education+6 moreMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $3,923,904 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANI…Forest Park Forever Inc: $1,040,000 · EnvironmentForest Park For…MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureMUNICIPAL TH…SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $746,827 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS …MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $708,914 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HIS…+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,090,289 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $646,376 · HealthSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $180,000 · HealthTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $135,340 · Health+3 more: $85,000 · HealthRAINBOW VILLAGE INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $160,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN HOUSE INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $100,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADYS INN: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE COVERING HOUSE: $45,000 · Human ServicesST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesGREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND: $744,997 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS IN THE KNOW: $32,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $40,000 · Youth Development
Other$18,140,499Education$5,772,237Environment$4,963,904Arts & Culture$3,965,741Health$2,137,005Human Services$1,154,000Youth Development$816,997

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $3,923,904 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $3,223,907 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS: $2,500,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,090,289 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $1,040,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetROSSMAN SCHOOL: $846,956 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $830,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $784,780 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $746,827 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND: $744,997 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE: $725,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $708,914 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $700,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $646,376 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $525,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $295,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $290,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetRAINBOW VILLAGE INC: $275,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetVanderbilt University: $258,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $210,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC: $200,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $195,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $180,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $165,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $160,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetKIDSMART INC: $145,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHRIVE ST LOUIS INC: $135,340 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $135,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 12 EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNPOWER INC: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $95,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF GRACE: $66,254 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLOGOS INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $62,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRanken Technical College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADYS INN: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIVE KIDS A SMILE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetTHE COVERING HOUSE: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
  • Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
  • Who funds WINGS OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC ↗

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…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…Brown Dana Charitable…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…Pott FoundationEmployees Community F…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Youthbridge Community…Pershing Charitable T…Berges Family Foundat…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO66.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Pott Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Berges Family Foundation

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 William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 93 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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