St Louis Cardinals Community Fund
St Louis, MO · EIN 43-1768625. Reported 72 grants totalling $3,188,412 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For St Louis Cardinals Community Fund, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 22% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $23,082. Half of what it reported fell between $10,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,600 and the largest $525,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Region Young Mens Christian Association | Saint Louis, MO | $705,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri | St Louis, MO | $625,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Louis Community Foundation Incorporated | Saint Louis, MO | $230,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Louis County Library Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brace for Impact 46 Inc | Defiance, MO | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| A Million Stars Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Great Rivers Greenway Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ssi Athletic Association Inc | St Simons Is, GA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Concordance Academy of Leadership | Saint Louis, MO | $90,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Magic House | Saint Louis, MO | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Sheldon Arts Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $79,484 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation | E Saint Louis, IL | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | Bridgeton, MO | $53,034 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater St Louis | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City Academy Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Roberto Clemente Foundation Corp | San Juan, PR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Water Missions International | North Charleston, SC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Hearing & Speech | St Louis, MO | $46,325 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $40,300 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Girls in the Know | Saint Louis, MO | $39,189 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Residence | Saint Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Louis Public Schools Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center of Creative Arts | Saint Louis, MO | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opera House Operator LLC Dba Stifel Theatre | St Louis, MO | $17,554 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Louis Aquarium at Union Station Foundation | St Louis, MO | $16,315 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America National | Arlington, VA | $15,875 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Louis Gamers | Chesterfield, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Special Education Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big League Impact Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Major League Baseball Charities Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Philips Holding USA Inc Dba Discus Dental | Cambridge, MA | $8,157 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $7,336 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Louis Science Center Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eye Thrive | Saint Louis, MO | $6,978 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whitfield Foundation for Success | Saint Louis, MO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Veterans Community Project | Kansas City, MO | $5,765 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cheeriodicals LLC | Chelsea, AL | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 40 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $490,767 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $1,085,843 | $20,146 |
| 2023 | 20 | $969,320 | $24,159 |
| 2024 | 18 | $642,482 | $20,887 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
90% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $23,082 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from St Louis Cardinals Community Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 700 Clark Street, St Louis, MO, 63102.
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