· Private foundation
William a Kerr Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $352k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BE WELL CAFE | $100,000 |
| MOUNT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION (MDIA) | $50,000 |
| JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI TIKVAH | $50,000 |
| LAS TRAMPAS SCHOOL INC | $50,000 |
| THE RUTH BANCROFT GARDENS INC | $50,000 |
| SEED ST LOUIS | $40,000 |
| ROSATI-KAIN ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| FORT GONDO INC | $25,000 |
| DOORWAYS INTERFAITH RESIDENCE | $25,000 |
| LINK STL INC | $25,000 |
| LINDSAY WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF KDHX | $25,000 |
| SHOW ME ARTS FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 17 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- BWBe Well Cafe5× · 2021–2025 · $538k · revenue +172% · 65% of their budget
- TRThe Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +9%
- MDMT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $217k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DTDBA THE JEWISH NEWS OF NORTHERN CAone grant, 2022 · $27k
- SLSt Louis ArtWorksone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +2%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO JEWISH COMMUNITYone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Founded in 1965, the Open Space Council works independently and collaboratively to conserve and sustain land, water and other natural resources throughout the St. Louis Region.
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
Art St Louis is a nonprofit community art organization and gallery dedicated to enriching lives through the creative activity of our region's contemporary visual artists. Through exhibition, education, and exchange, we connect and inspire…
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.
The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust leads and inspires action to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Mountains to Sound Greenway, ensuring a long-term balance between people and nature.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
LANLT's mission is to grow healthier, safer, and stronger communities by creating urban parks and community gardens that remedy the critical lack of green and recreational spaces in greater Los Angeles' underserved neighborhoods.
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.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Northern California Sled Dog Rescue. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 114 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 Be Well Cafe ↗
- Who funds The Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc ↗
- Who funds MT DIABLO INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Las Trampas School Inc ↗
- Who funds SEED ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHOICE IN AGING ↗
- Who funds Diablo Regional Arts Association ↗
- Who funds LINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LINKSTL INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT CREEK LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rosati-Kain Academy ↗
- Who funds CINEMA ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Bicycle Works Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXPLORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAILNET INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUTH WINS OUT INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF VOLUNTEER ENTHUSIASTS OF COMMUNITY RADIO STL ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds St Louis ArtWorks ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Washington University · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · East Bay 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization William a Kerr Foundation 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.
- Great Explorations Inc — 1% of income from government
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.