· Public charity
United Way of Greater St Louis Inc
United Way of Greater St.
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.
The 294 grants below total $47,834,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $54,388,226 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,553,826 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k128 grants · $14M
- $250k+55 grants · $31M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | $2,101,670 |
| American Red Cross of Eastern Missouri | $1,600,000 |
| Provident Inc | $1,501,785 |
| Boy Scouts of America Inc Greater St Louis Area Council | $1,302,512 |
| Entertainment Industry Foundation | $1,205,000 |
| Gateway Region YMCA | $1,181,916 |
| The Salvation Army | $1,032,207 |
| Jazz St Louis | $992,500 |
| St Patrick Center | $895,231 |
| YWCA of Metropolitan St Louis | $872,056 |
| American Cancer Society | $815,611 |
| St Louis Arc | $767,770 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc | $663,437 |
| St Louis Area Foodbank Inc | $646,371 |
| Beyond Housing | $614,705 |
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, $113.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of United Way of Greater St Louis Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
474 repeat relationships — 249 still active in FY2025, 225 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- PIProvident Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +56% · 35% of their budget
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +184%
- GRGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TSThe Salvation Armyone grant, 2017 · $976k
- FRFamily Resource Centerone grant, 2017 · $301k
- OFOK Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue ×136
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.
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…
Economic development.
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
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…
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is The Kranzberg Arts Foundation. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
726 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. 726 of the 831 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
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
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 Provident Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYMENT CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARRAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · 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 United Way of Greater St Louis Inc 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.