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The William S Anheuser Family Foundation at a glance

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The William S Anheuser Family 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.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.3MHealth$656kYouth Development$311kEducation$281kInternational$200kCivil Rights$123kArts & Culture$104kFood & Nutrition$46kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
ST LOUIS ARTWORKS$5,000
MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
THAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY$5,000
PRIDE ST LOUIS$5,000
PROMO FUND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
URBAN HARVEST$3,000
GATWEAY MEN'S CHORUS$2,500
CHARIS - THE ST LOUIS WOMENS CHORUS$2,500
ARTICA$2,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $840k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTHBRIDGE: $541k → 11%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $20k → 14%YOUTH BRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $259k → 11%PROMO FUND: $10k → 21%PROMO FUND: $5k → 21%PROMO FUND: $5k → 21%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

MN
NY
MA
CA
MO
AZ
DC
TX
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 18 repeat orgs$920k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
21

Total granted

$1.4M
$915k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+26%

Still filing today

78%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IP
    INTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR
    2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +12% · 28% of their budget
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +6%
  • PS
    Pride St Louis Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $58k · revenue +271%

Funded once

  • YB
    Youth Bridge Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $541k · revenue -50%
  • GH
    GREATER HORIZONSYOUTHBRIDGE COMM FNDTN - GENTLEMEN OF VISION FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $52k
  • TS
    THE SCHOOL BUS FUND PROJECT
    one grant, 2017 · $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
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
2
Techstl

The TechSTL Council serves as the St Louis champion for technology by strategically and equitably investing in regional collaboration to advance tech workforce development and retention, along with spurring innovation opportunities in…

Community Improvement
3
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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4
Art St Louis

Art St Louis is a nonprofit community art organization and gallery dedicated to enriching lives through the creative activity of our region's contemporary visual artists. Through exhibition, education, and exchange, we connect and inspire…

Arts & Culture
5
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

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…

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6
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
7
Counterpublic

Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimaginging the possibilities of art in public life.

Arts & Culture
8
St Lou Fringe

To offer everyone the opportunity to put before an audience their works in theater, dance and music.

Arts & Culture
9
Gateway Equity Institute

GEI is a catalyst to increase awareness, facilitate engagement, and foster a culture of mutual respect, understanding and fairness where everyone feels valued and empowered through community dialogue and education.

Civil Rights
10
The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council

See schedule o.the greater st. louis arts and education council (the arts and education council or the council) was the st. louis region's only united arts fund that pooled together donations from individuals, foundations and corporations…

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11
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
12
American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri

Our non-profit, non-partisan law firm's mission is to defend and extend civil liberties, to achieve the promise of equality and liberty for all in missouri, through impact litigation and campaigns, narrative and legislative advocacy, and…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbridge Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Youth Bridge Inc. 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

25 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. 25 of the 43 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER HORIZONSYOUTHBRIDGE COMM FNDTN WSA DONOR ADVISED FUND: $458,500 · OtherGREATER HORIZONSYOUTHBRIDGE COMM FNDTN WSA D…GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $291,076 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INCIndividual grant recipient: $54,000 · OtherGREATER HORIZONSYOUTHBRIDGE COMM FNDTN - GENTLEMEN OF VISION FUND: $52,000 · OtherTHE SCHOOL BUS FUND PROJECT: $50,000 · OtherPride St Louis Inc: $58,000 · Other+20 more: $255,061 · Other+20 moreYouth Bridge Inc: $540,678 · Human ServicesYouth Bridge IncYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $258,924 · Human ServicesYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…+2 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesGreater Horizons: $493,496 · PhilanthropyGreater HorizonsTHE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR: $200,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $50,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSt Louis ArtWorks: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY: $17,500 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCHARIS - THE ST LOUIS WOMENS CHORUS: $8,000 · Arts & CultureARTICA: $8,000 · Arts & CultureLIVING WELL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Health
Other$1,218,637Human Services$839,602Philanthropy$513,496International$200,000Education$130,000Arts & Culture$93,500Health$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Horizons: $493,496 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $291,076 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $258,924 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PHYSICIANS FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR: $200,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetLIVING WELL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPride St Louis Inc: $58,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetThe George Washington University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHCITY DEFENDERS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $20,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPROMO FUND: $20,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAYSON TATUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY: $17,500 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGateway Men's Chorus: $10,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHARIS - THE ST LOUIS WOMENS CHORUS: $8,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetARTICA: $8,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MISSOURI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $750 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…St Louis Community Fo…Regional Cultural and…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…William a Kerr Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…The John and Alison F…Pershing Charitable T…The Kranzberg Family …Trio Foundation of St…Edward Jones Foundati…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO22.8× affinity9 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 · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · William a Kerr Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The John and Alison Ferring Family Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Edward Jones 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 S Anheuser Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William S Anheuser Family Foundation. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 43 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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