Missouri · Public charity
Webster University
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
- $46M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $9k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $284M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Webster University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $30k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $82k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $119k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $129k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $168k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Susan Polgar Foundation Inc | $80,250 | 5 | 66% |
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | $78,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St Louis American Foundation | $73,050 | 7 | 4% |
| St Louis University High School | $50,080 | 5 | n/a |
| Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School | $49,259 | 5 | 0% |
| International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis | $37,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council | $31,660 | 4 | 0% |
| Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Webster Arts | $25,800 | 4 | 4% |
| St Louis Regional Public Media Inc | $25,650 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Webster University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Webster University
- How much does Webster University give?
- Webster University reported 1 itemized grants totaling $9,000, out of $46,406,377 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Webster University fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (19%), Community Improvement (16%).
- Who are Webster University's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Susan Polgar Foundation Inc ($80k), Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis ($79k), St Louis American Foundation ($73k).
- Does Webster University fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Webster University?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission, Edward Jones Foundation, Centene Foundation.
- Where is Webster University based?
- Webster University is based in MO.
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