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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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
161
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$2.3MEducation$1.9MHuman Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$350kYouth Development$333kFood & Nutrition$285kPublic Safety & Disaster$251kCrime & Legal$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 161 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 161 grants below total $2,935,640 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,847,840 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $912,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k136 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $546k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Missouri - St Louis$300,000
St Lukes Hospital$134,820
KidsSmart Tools for Learning$111,430
Mayo Clinic Department of Development$100,000
The Covering House$50,000
St. Louis Police Foundation$50,000
Family Forward$50,000
Room at the Inn$50,000
Employee Assistance Foundation$25,773
Alzheimers Association$25,000
Make a Wish Foundation of Missouri$25,000
The Salvation Army$25,000
St. Louis Children's Hospital Foundation$25,000
Give Kids a Smile$25,000
Marian Middle School$20,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 146 repeat orgs$897k to everyone else

146 repeat relationships — 133 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

146
35

Total granted

$7.3M
$451k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+41%

Still filing today

68%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • RA
    Room at the Inn
    3× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +28%
  • TC
    THE COVERING HOUSE
    3× · 2019–2024 · $105k · revenue +182%
  • KI
    KIDSMART INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $86k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -19%
  • SL
    St. Louis Crisis Nursery
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • AC
    American Cancer Society
    one grant, 2019 · $20k

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

03Your field

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.

1
Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement
2
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
3
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
4
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
5
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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6
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
7
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
8
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
9
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
10
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
11
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
12
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospital for Children. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Hospital SystemsFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Local History MuseumsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Addiction & Mental Health T…Jewish Community FederationsCharter and Independent Sch…Developmental Disabilities …Environmental Advocacy and …Community Literacy TutoringFood Pantries and AssistanceChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Civil Legal ServicesPublic Library SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterEarly Childhood Care CentersUnited Way AffiliatesGovernment Accountability &…Youth Sports ProgramsCollege Foundation SupportVolunteer Fire & RescueSenior Support ServicesChildhood Cancer SupportVeteran Support ServicesFaith-Based Senior LivingImmigrant and Latino Integr…Youth Development CentersAffordable Housing Construc…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr24%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr16%12%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr24%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/138
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,353

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.

03the grantee network

132 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. 132 of the 203 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/132
Grantees still filing
100/132
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Missouri - St Louis — $1,050,000 · OtherUniversity of Missouri - St Louis+127 more — $4,431,267 · Other+127 moreCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $150,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOM…THE COVERING HOUSE — $105,000 · Human ServicesTHE COVERING H…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $75,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FO…THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $70,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S SA…COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI — $70,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE…HEAT UP ST LOUIS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesHEAT UP ST LOU…THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT…FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $60,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF KID…SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH IN NEED — $55,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS — $40,000 · Human Services+12 more — $270,000 · Human Services+12 moreMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 · HealthST LOUIS CH…QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER — $70,000 · HealthQUEEN OF PE…American Diabetes Association — $60,000 · HealthAmerican Di…American Heart Association Inc — $60,000 · HealthAmerican He…MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $60,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DY…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $60,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…UNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN — $55,000 · HealthUNITED SERV…ST LOUIS SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND — $45,000 · HealthST LOUIS SO…Places for People Incorporated — $30,000 · HealthProvident Inc — $30,000 · Health+13 more — $180,000 · Health+13 moreKIDSMART INC — $86,389 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INC — $60,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $60,000 · EducationEMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $56,173 · EducationLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $45,000 · EducationHarris-Stowe Foundation Inc — $30,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR AUTISM EDUCATION — $30,000 · EducationST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Education+2 more — $15,000 · EducationOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $45,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $45,000 · Food & NutritionOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC — $45,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI — $45,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD OUTREACH INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionLydia's House Inc — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $45,000 · Housing & ShelterSt Joseph Housing Initiative — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ST LOUIS — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRESTORATION HOUSE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $30,000 · Philanthropy
Other$5,481,267Human Services$1,070,000Health$825,000Education$397,562Food & Nutrition$200,000Housing & Shelter$175,000Philanthropy$170,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation — $130,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRoom at the Inn — $120,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetTHE COVERING HOUSE — $105,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSMART INC — $86,389 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIVE KIDS A SMILE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLydia's House Inc — $70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEAT UP ST LOUIS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION — $56,173 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAlmost Home — $55,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICES FOR CHILDREN — $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES — $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME — $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…St Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…Moneta Group Charitab…Brown Dana Charitable…Pott FoundationNorman J Stupp Founda…Centene FoundationYouthbridge Community…
United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO104.2× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Pott Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Centene Foundation · Youthbridge Community 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tsf?

Find your warmest path to Tsf 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 203 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4.8M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home