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William S Kallaos Family Foundation at a glance

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William S Kallaos Family 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.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$401kYouth Development$67kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kRecreation & Sports$39kHuman Services$39kEducation$33kHousing & Shelter$23kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$17,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE VARIETY CLUB CHILDRENS CHARITY$10,000
CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$8,340
PALOZOLA FOUNDATION$6,000
UNITED MITOCHONRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION$5,000
ANGELS ARMS$5,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS$5,000
EQUINE ASSISTED THERAPY$5,000
SMILE TRAIN$5,000
NO HUNGER HOLIDAY$4,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK$3,000
ACTION FOR AUTISM$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%NO HUNGER HOLIDAY: $4k → 5%ONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES: $3k → 11%REST STOP MINISTRIES: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%BUDDY FUND: $5k → 21%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ANGELS ARMS: $6k → 11%ANGELS ARMS: $5k → 11%ANGELS ARMS: $5k → 11%ANGELS ARMS: $5k → 11%ST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
MD
TN
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$636k · 18 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$636k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+47%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +110%
  • UM
    UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +26%
  • CG
    CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $66k · revenue +362%

Funded once

  • RS
    REST STOP MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • FH
    FORE HONOR FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +143%
  • TB
    THE BUDDY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +65%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Lukes Episcopal-Presbyterian Hospitals

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
2
Giving Is a Family Tradition

Gift's mission is to empower nicu families. we foster resilience, hope, and healing during and after the nicu journey through education, providing critical infant care supplies, and cultivating community. our vision is to improve family…

Health
3
Ssm Hospice and Home Care Foundation

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

—
4
St Luke's Des Peres Episcopal- Presbyterian Hospital

We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.

Health
5
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.

Human Services
6
First Access Behavioral Health

Improve the quality of life and enhance resiliency for first responders by offering quality awareness and support services to reduce workplace trauma's physical and phychological effects.

Health
7
Ssm Health Foundation - St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.

—
8
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services

Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.

—
9
Gwendolyn's Gifts

Gwendolyn's gifts mission is to provide emotional support and financial support to families of children on palliative and/or hospice care in the saint louis region and surrounding areas.

Health
10
Children's Home Society of Missouri

The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…

Human Services
11
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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12
Blake Wagner Foundation
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; the most unlike its peers is Palozola Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $65,850 · OtherCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONTHE VARIETY CLUB CHILDRENS CHARITY: $61,700 · OtherTHE VARIETY CLUB CHILDRENS CHARITYST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $46,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALSMILE TRAIN INC: $30,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $20,000 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FU…VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $20,000 · OtherVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUISTUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS: $20,000 · OtherTUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONS+8 more: $26,000 · Other+8 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $100,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIS…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $39,800 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross &…ANGELS' ARMS: $21,000 · Human ServicesANGELS' ARMS+5 more: $19,000 · Human Services+5 moreUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · HealthUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL D…EQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC: $30,000 · HealthEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAP…Edens Glory: $8,000 · HealthEdens GloryFORE HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,500 · HealthPALOZOLA FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyACTION FOR AUTISM: $4,000 · PhilanthropyLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $32,500 · EducationOPERATION SHOWER: $5,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $2,500 · Public BenefitFAITH ACRES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Religion
Other$289,550Human Services$179,800Health$135,500Philanthropy$42,000Education$32,500Public Benefit$7,500Religion$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $100,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $65,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $39,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALOZOLA FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $32,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS' ARMS: $21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEdens Glory: $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREST STOP MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFORE HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE BUDDY FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION SHOWER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELLENIC SPIRIT FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetACTION FOR AUTISM: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAITH ACRES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…DotopiaSt Louis Community Fo…Employees Community F…Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Dotopia · St Louis Community Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William S Kallaos Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William S Kallaos Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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