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World Wide Technology 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k111 grants · $284k
- $10k–50k61 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+14 grants · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL | $608,000 |
| THE MUNY | $587,475 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL BSA | $580,500 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $562,500 |
| VARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $510,000 |
| EVOLUTION FESTIVAL | $500,000 |
| JAZZ ST LOUIS | $462,500 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $422,000 |
| AREION FOUNDATION INC | $350,000 |
| CONCORDANCE | $342,250 |
| SLSG FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS | $300,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ACADEMY MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BIBLICAL BUSINESS TRAINING INC DBA BBT | $245,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
371 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2025, 219 since wound down; 69 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL7× · 2018–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +110%
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +63%
- VTVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS6× · 2018–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS SCOTT GALLAGHER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue +49%
- MGMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- AAARRAY ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $375k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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…
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
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…
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas 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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
573 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. 573 of the 1,023 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 312 - GREATER ST LOUIS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL BUSINESS TRAINING INC DBA BBT ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SCOTT GALLAGHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITFIELD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Centene Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Tsf · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Berges Family 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 World Wide Technology 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.
- Foundation for Educational Development Inc — 4% 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.
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