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Wsdc 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $985k
- $250k+2 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC | $600,000 |
| ASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING | $250,000 |
| DUO DOGS INC | $200,000 |
| JOVIAL CONCEPTS | $135,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| FENTANYL SOLUTIONS ORG | $100,000 |
| OG HOSPITALITY CARES FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $50,000 |
| SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS | $50,000 |
| CONSTITUTIONAL COALITION | $50,000 |
| CODE 3 RESPONSE | $50,000 |
| HEARTLAND YOUTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VERONA HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC | $50,000 |
| CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH | $50,000 |
| GRAY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +48% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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
- DEDEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +60% · 31% of their budget
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +112%- JCJovial Concepts7× · 2017–2024 · $795k · revenue +165% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- CHCHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +67% · 56% of their budget
- TUTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +46%
- NBNATIONAL BASS ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $400k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
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The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
The denver police blue hat foundation provides financial assistance and support to active and former denver police officers, civilian employees of the police department and immediate members of their families in times of crisis.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Signlight Inc. 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 27 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 109 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 DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jovial Concepts ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING ↗
- Who funds TIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds E4E RELIEF LLC ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ELLISVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CONSTITUTIONAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds LIFT DISABILITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Rick Rush Art Alliance ↗
- Who funds RESPONDER RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Blues Alumni Assn ↗
- Who funds JAMES TOWER CAMPBELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds LOWER SAUCON FIRE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FENTANYLSOLUTION ORG ↗
- Who funds MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CODE 3 RESPONSE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Blues for Kids · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Stupp Bros Bridge & Iron Foundation · Tsf · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Blues Alumni Assn · Stifel Foundation Inc · The Crawford Taylor 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 Wsdc 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.
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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