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Velma Neiman Charitable 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.

$524k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$524k0%
FY202313$502k15%
FY202212$462k17%
FY202110$375k10%
FY202010$395kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.8MAnimals$164kScience & Tech$125kReligion$72kHealth$50kHuman Services$40kEnvironment$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Louis University High School$500,0005n/a
De Smet Jesuit High School$500,0005n/a
Villa Duchesne - Oak Hill School$200,0005n/a
Radio Amateur Satellite Corp$125,00058%
The Saint Louis Zoo Association$125,00050%
Immacolata Catholic Church$72,0003n/a
All Secure Foundation Inc$40,00022%
Great Rivers Habitat Alliance$2,00011%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($694k), not named here.

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.

Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern MissouriMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Boniface Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation

How much does Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation give?
Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $524,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (80%), Animals (7%), Science & Tech (6%).
Who are Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: St Louis University High School ($500k), De Smet Jesuit High School ($500k), Villa Duchesne - Oak Hill School ($200k).
Does Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Boniface Foundation.
Where is Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation based?
Velma Neiman Charitable Foundation is based in MO.

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 15 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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