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The Women's Foundation of Greater Saint Louis

THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF GREATER SAINT LOUIS is a catalyst for workplace, individual, and policy change that advances women's economic success.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$77kHuman Services$60kCrime & Legal$42kCivil Rights$24kCommunity Improvement$22kHealth$17kYouth Development$16k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$199k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM (IHELP)$12,500
MISSOURI WOMEN IN TRADES$10,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS$7,500
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 (FY17–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $5k → 11%FAMILY FORWARD: $5k → 11%MICA PROJECT: $8k → 21%MIGRANT AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT (MICA): $8k → 21%MICA PROJECT: $7k → 21%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSESINNER CITY MISSIONS OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10k → 21%IMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM (IHELP): $13k → 21%IMMIGRANT & REFUGE WOMEN'S PROGRAM: $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.
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$167k · 8 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +160% since the first grant, against +59% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$167k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+160%
+59%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationEmploymentHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MW
    MISSOURI WOMEN IN TRADES
    4× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +179% · 26% of their budget
  • AH
    Almost Home
    3× · 2021–2023 · $26k · revenue +18%
  • MA
    Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project
    3× · 2019–2021 · $22k · revenue +160%

Funded once

  • PU
    PARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGE
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • UP
    UNLEASHING POTENTIAL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • TC
    THE COLLECTIVE THREAD
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -43%
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
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
2
Women Employed

To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.

Employment
3
Pivot Inc

Community reentry program for women

Crime & Legal
4
Woman Inc

W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. In all our work, we strive to continually increase our…

Health
5
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
6
Latino Union of Chicago

Latino Union works to defend the rights and dignity of contingent workers, including the right to immigrate, work, live free of oppression and violence, and provide for oneself and one's family.

Human Services
7
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
8
Healing to Action

Ending gender-based violence by building the leadership and collective power of the communities most impacted.

Employment
9
Refugee Womens Alliance

ReWA is a non-profit, multi-ethnic organization that promotes inclusion, independence, personal leadership, and strong communities by providing refugee and immigrant women and their families with culturally and linguistically appropriate…

Human Services
10
St Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc

SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.

Crime & Legal
11
Women Forward International

Women forward international (wfi) partners the next generation with nonprofit and private sector organizations and artists to implement solutions critical to human process, bridging mind and heart to bring about unity, collaboration, and…

International
12
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Women in Transition Dba Keyway Center for Diversion & Reentry; the most unlike its peers is The Collective Thread. 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

20 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. 20 of the 21 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project: $22,250 · Human ServicesMigrant and Immigrant Comm…IMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM: $17,500 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEA…UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNLEASHING POTENTIALTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSECHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF…Almost Home: $26,000 · OtherAlmost HomePARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGE: $11,000 · OtherPARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGEBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $6,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF E…LETS START INC: $5,000 · OtherLETS START INCTHE COLLECTIVE THREAD: $8,000 · OtherTHE COLLECTIVE THREADLydia's House Inc: $6,500 · OtherLydia's House IncKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $5,000 · OtherKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE …MISSOURI WOMEN IN TRADES: $45,000 · EmploymentMISSOURI WOMEN IN T…NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCI…PARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGE - COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $7,500 · Community ImprovementPARENTS UNITED …WEPOWER: $7,500 · Community ImprovementWEPOWERCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $6,750 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ORGAN…THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $17,500 · EducationTHE LAUNCH…FORAI INC: $6,000 · EducationFORAI INCCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $14,250 · Crime & LegalHEALING ACTION NETWORK INC: $11,750 · Health
Human Services$59,750Other$67,500Employment$45,000Community Improvement$34,250Education$23,500Crime & Legal$14,250Health$11,750

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 budgetMISSOURI WOMEN IN TRADES: $45,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetAlmost Home: $26,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMigrant and Immigrant Community Action Project: $22,250 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM: $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $14,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING ACTION NETWORK INC: $11,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE THREAD: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPARENTS UNITED FOR CHANGE - COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $7,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetWEPOWER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES: $6,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLETS START INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $5,000 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…Trio Foundation of St…Commerce Bancshares F…Norman J Stupp Founda…St Louis Community Fo…Washington UniversityUnited Way of Greater…Employees Community F…Joseph & Florence Rob…Regional Business Cou…TsfBrown Dana Charitable…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO36.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Washington University · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Joseph & Florence Roblee Foundation · Regional Business Council · Tsf · Brown Dana Charitable Trust

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 Women's Foundation of Greater Saint Louis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Women's Foundation of Greater Saint Louis. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 21 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 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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