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Youthbridge Community Foundation
YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION partners with donors to help charities in the st.
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
- Under $10k25 grants · $160k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+9 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $8,110,499 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000,000 |
| SSM HEALTH CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $1,640,500 |
| TODAY AND TOMORROW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $825,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS | $616,010 |
| UNLIMITED PLAY | $400,000 |
| KIDS WIN MISSOURI | $348,500 |
| WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL | $300,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF BASILICA OF ST LOUIS | $252,000 |
| STRAY RESCUE OF ST LOUIS | $207,123 |
| ONE CLASSROOM | $200,000 |
| GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS | $175,100 |
| INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY | $161,211 |
| CARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREP | $156,998 |
| ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF | $150,000 |
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, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +45% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
166 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 34 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M 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
- TSTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $12M · revenue +92%
- CGCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +72%
- UPUNLIMITED PLAY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +338%
Funded once
- SCSSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -4%
- SLSt Louis Inter Faith Committee on Latin Americaone grant, 2020 · $349k · revenue -39% · 48% of their budget
- KIKIDSMART INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +153%
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 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
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.
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
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…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Economic development.
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
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.
The mission of peace for kids is to provide a comprehensive, quality child development program for a diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. peace for kids is committed to assisting working families with safe, quality child care at…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. the organization's vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
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…
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Equus Rescue and Therapy 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
250 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. 250 of the 309 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 SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SSM CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNLIMITED PLAY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS WIN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds WILD CANID SURVIVAL AND RESEARCH CENTER INC DBA ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAITH THROUGH FIRE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ARCHDIOCESAN COUNCIL OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Stray Rescue of St Louis ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds St Louis Inter Faith Committee on Latin America ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD ENTRUST INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Elementary School Association ↗
- Who funds St Mary's South Side Catholic High School ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PET GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds THE COVERING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GENERATE HEALTH STL ↗
- Who funds PONY BIRD INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds Dogs For Our Brave Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
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 · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Pott Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Youthbridge Community 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Parents for Peace — 41% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Move United — 16% 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.