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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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.2MRecreation & Sports$2.8MEducation$2.4MHealth$1.9MAnimals$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.3MArts & Culture$996kCrime & Legal$805kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $985k
  • $250k+2 grants · $850k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OG HOSPITALITY CARES FOUNDATION$100,000
FENTANYL SOLUTIONS ORG$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
SUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS$50,000
CHESTERTON ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH$50,000
HEARTLAND YOUTH FOUNDATION$50,000
CODE 3 RESPONSE$50,000
VERONA HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION INC$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$50,000
CONSTITUTIONAL COALITION$50,000
ST LOUIS AREA WOMEN'S POLICE SOCCER TEAM$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50k → 14%CARE TO LEARN: $83k → 15%MISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $20k → 11%GREATER ST LOUIS ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF INC: $25k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $50k → 21%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $10k → 21%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $600k → 11%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 11%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $450k → 11%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $450k → 11%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $420k → 11%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $400k → 11%DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $400k → 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

MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 45 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
52

Total granted

$13M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+6%

Still filing today

60%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • DE
    DEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +68% · 31% of their budget
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +112%
  • JC
    Jovial Concepts
    7× · 2017–2024 · $795k · revenue +165% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

  • CH
    CHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +67% · 56% of their budget
  • TU
    TIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +46%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BASS ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $400k
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
United States Naval Institute

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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2
Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund

The foundation fighting blindness retinal degeneration fund's mission is to accelerate the translation of retinal laboratory-based research into clinical trials to expedite the commercialization of patient therapies.

Health
3
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
4
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
5
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
6
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

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,…

Human Services
7
Denver Police Blue Hat Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Npr Foundation

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…

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9
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy
10
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
11
United States Anti-Doping Agency

Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes

Recreation & Sports
12
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund

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,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 109 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
46/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION: $525,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATIONST GIANNA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $450,000 · OtherST GIANNA CATHOLIC CHURCHDUO DOGS INC: $425,000 · OtherDUO DOGS INCNATIONAL BASS ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherNATIONAL BASS ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF FOUNDA…NEW FRANCE THE OTHER COLONIAL AMERICA: $400,000 · OtherNEW FRANCE THE OTHER COLONIAL AMERICASUPPORT OUR SOLDIERS: $323,000 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $300,000 · OtherE4E RELIEF LLC: $450,000 · OtherE4E RELIEF LLCJovial Concepts: $795,000 · OtherJovial Concepts+52 more: $3,225,400 · Other+52 moreDEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $3,220,000 · Human ServicesDEAF EMPOWERMENT AWAR…LIFT DISABILITY NETWORK INC: $125,000 · Human Services+5 more: $238,000 · Human Services+5 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,420,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…CENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $725,000 · EducationCENTRAL INSTITUTE…ASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING: $500,000 · EducationASPEN CAMP OF THE…St Louis Blues Alumni Assn: $115,000 · Education+2 more: $70,000 · EducationCHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $2,000,000 · Recreation & SportsCHESTERFIELD…+3 more: $95,000 · Recreation & SportsTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $122,500 · PhilanthropyMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropySIGNLIGHT INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $100,000 · PhilanthropyMAYO CLINIC: $350,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100,000 · HealthLOWER SAUCON FIRE RESCUE: $100,000 · HealthFENTANYLSOLUTION ORG: $100,000 · HealthPREVENTED: $75,000 · HealthCOPING 4 LIFE: $45,000 · HealthJUST IN TIME TO SAVE A LIFE: $40,000 · Health+6 more: $120,000 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $650,000 · AnimalsTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Animals+6 more: $130,000 · Animals
Other$7,293,400Human Services$3,583,000Education$2,830,000Recreation & Sports$2,095,000Philanthropy$1,002,500Health$930,000Animals$880,000

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 budgetDEAF EMPOWERMENT AWARENESS FOUNDATION INC: $3,220,000 over 7y, 31% of budgetCHESTERFIELD HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,420,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJovial Concepts: $795,000 over 7y, 56% of budgetCENTRAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $725,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $650,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING: $500,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetTIGERS UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUO DOGS INC: $425,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $300,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBEAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL: $225,000 over 3y, 86% of budgetELLISVILLE POLICE FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $175,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CONSTITUTIONAL COALITION: $125,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetLIFT DISABILITY NETWORK INC: $125,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetNASHVILLE PREDATORS FOUNDATION: $122,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Rick Rush Art Alliance: $121,000 over 3y, 90% of budgetRESPONDER RESCUE INC: $115,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetSt Louis Blues Alumni Assn: $115,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetJAMES TOWER CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER SAUCON FIRE RESCUE: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE BILLFISH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCODE 3 RESPONSE: $95,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCare to Learn: $83,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPREVENTED: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN PA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIGNLIGHT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPING 4 LIFE: $45,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUsher Syndrome Society Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetROICE-HURST HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater St Louis Association of the Deaf: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetKODAWEST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

World Wide Technology…St Louis Community Fo…Blues for KidsSt Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Stupp Bros Bridge & I…TsfCommerce Bancshares F…Employees Community F…St Louis Blues Alumni…Stifel Foundation IncThe Crawford Taylor F…
World Wide Technology FoundationMO20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wsdc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wsdc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wsdc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wsdc Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 109 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home