· Private foundation
Tom W Bennett Estate
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $875k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $87,469 |
| UNITED WAY | $87,469 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $58,313 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $58,313 |
| BARNARD CANCER INSTITUTE | $58,313 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $58,313 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $58,313 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $58,313 |
| YMCA OF ST LOUIS | $58,313 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC | $58,313 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $58,313 |
| MARYGROVE SCHOOL | $58,313 |
| EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $58,313 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $58,313 |
| THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND | $36,894 |
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 (FY17–25, $795k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BHBETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $436k · revenue +237%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $312k · revenue +98%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $265k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF ST LOUIS - GATEWAY REGION YMCAone grant, 2022 · $56k
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.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
United Way of Greater St. Louis mobilizes the community with one goal in mind - helping people live their best possible lives.
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…
The society enhances independence, empowers individuals and enriches the lives of people who are visually impaired or blind.
Girl scouts of wisconsin southeast, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the preeminent membership-based organization dedicated to helping all girls develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world. girl scouting…
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…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Epworth Children & Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Lighthouse for the Blind. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 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 EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Co Tr Ua Viola J Reynolds · Leo R Buder Foundation Trust · Elberth R & Gladys F Grant Char · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Graybar Foundation · East Missouri Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Tom W Bennett Estate 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.