The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish
St Louis, MO · EIN 43-1648435. Reported 110 grants totalling $217.5M to 53 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 The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E11).
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 85% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- 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 $35,299. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $68,000; the smallest was $6,500 and the largest $67.3M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $24,471 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $185.9M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barnes Jewish Hospital | Saint Louis, MO | $19.5M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bjc Home Care Services | Saint Louis, MO | $6,395,139 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pedal the Cause | Saint Louis, MO | $850,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barnes Jewish West County Hospital | Saint Louis, MO | $841,997 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Sheldon Arts Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $650,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bjc Health System | Saint Louis, MO | $382,515 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Havenhouse St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $226,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $209,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Voyce | Saint Louis, MO | $199,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| CASA De Salud | Saint Louis, MO | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Food Outreach Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Residence | Saint Louis, MO | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Louis Health Equipment Lending Program | Olivette, MO | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Provident Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $104,793 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Operation Food Search Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pink Ribbon Good Inc | Troy, OH | $97,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Covenant House Missouri | Saint Louis, MO | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Andrews Charitable Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $67,660 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Breakfast Club Inc | Florissant, MO | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Duo Dogs Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Services By Design Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Health Protection and Education Service | Saint Louis, MO | $57,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memory Care Home Solutions | Saint Louis, MO | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Prevented | Saint Louis, MO | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bridge of Hope Ministries | Saint Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway to Hope | Maplewood, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gateway to Hope | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harris House Foundation | Saint Charles, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Room at the Inn | Bridgeton, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Patrick Center | Saint Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Visiting Nurse Association of Greater St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alive Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Our Ladys Inn | Saint Louis, MO | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Oasis Institute | Saint Ann, MO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Assisi House | Saint Louis, MO | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nurses for Newborns | Saint Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Red Circle | Saint Louis, MO | $31,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis | Des Peres, MO | $30,975 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Center | Saint Louis, MO | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Louis Ovarian Cancer Awareness | Saint Louis, MO | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Region Young Mens Christian Association | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Afya Foundation Inc | Yonkers, NY | $24,471 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Als Association (the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association) | St Louis, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health Literacy Ministry | Saint Louis, MO | $16,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humanitri | Saint Louis, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Independence Center | Saint Louis, MO | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wyman Center Inc | Wildwood, MO | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Haven of Grace | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Safe Connections | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Brain Injury Foundation of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Build-a-Bear Foundation Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
33 of 53 (62%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Washington University School of Medicine
RESEARCH, PATIENT SUPPORT, EDUCATION, MD RECRUITMENT - Barnes - Jewish Hospital
RESEARCH, PATIENT SUPPORT, EDUCATION, CAPITAL, COMMUNITY SERVICES - Bjc Home Care Services
HOSPICE AND HOME CARE SUPPORT FOR PATIENTS - The Sheldon Arts Foundation
TO PROVIDE THE ST. LOUIS REGION WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF MUSIC, VISUAL ARTS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND EDUCATION IMPACT - Barnes Jewish West County Hospital
CAPITAL, PATIENT SUPPORT & EDUCATION - Bjc Heatlh System Dba Bjc Healthcare
TO SUPPORT NURSING EDUCATION THROUGH E LEARNING COURSES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 53 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 | 19 | $73.4M | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $65.2M | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 31 | $25.6M | $35,000 |
| 2024 | 35 | $53.4M | $35,000 |
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
100% 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 $35,299 -- 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 The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish'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 35 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: 1001 Highlands Plz Dr West 140, St Louis, MO, 63110.
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