The Home Builders Charitable Foundation
St Louis, MO · EIN 43-1791055. Reported 55 grants totalling $907,073 to 25 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 Home Builders Charitable Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a private grantmaking foundation (NTEE T20).
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 8% 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $7,276 and the largest $20,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Center Marygrove | Saint Louis, MO | $70,283 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Saint Peters, MO | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rebuilding Together St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $68,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Peters Senior Citizens Corporation | St Peters, MO | $67,532 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Youth in Need | Saint Charles, MO | $67,394 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rainbow Village Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Joseph Housing Initiative | Saint Louis, MO | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Cerebral Palsy Heartland | Saint Louis, MO | $50,624 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beyond Housing Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Independence Center | Saint Louis, MO | $38,301 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pony Bird Incorporated | Herculaneum, MO | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Andrews Charitable Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $29,900 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Residence | Saint Louis, MO | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| L Arche St Louis | Brentwood, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lovethelou | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Services By Design Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $19,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Ignites St Louis | Richmond Hts, MO | $18,721 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Faith Through Fire Inc | Wentzville, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Great Circle | Olathe, KS | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Living Well Foundation | Imperial, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas | Ballwin, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emmaus Homes Inc | Saint Charles, MO | $14,168 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Room at the Inn | Bridgeton, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 25 (60%) 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.
- Ucp Heartland
UPDATE A BATHROOM AT THE ORGANIZATION'S OAK TREE RESPITE HOUSE - Promise Community Homes
FUNDING NEW ROOF OF ONE HOME AND SOFFIT, FASCIA, AND GUTTER REPLACEMENT ON ANOTHER HOME THAT PROVIDES SPECIALIZED AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES - St Joseph Housing Initiative
RENOVATE A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME - Beyond Housing
REHAB OF A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME AS PART OF THEIR AFFORDABLE RENTAL PROGRAM FOR A LOW-INCOME FAMILY. - Habitat for Humanity - St Charles
2024 BUILD SEASON. HABITAT WILL BE PARTNERING WITH FIVE FAMILIES AND ARE BEGINNING THEIR LARGEST DEVELOPMENT IN ST. CHARLES COUNTY. - L'arche St Louis
BUILDING A NEW HOME IN BRENTWOOD TO SERVE AS THE LIFETIME HOME OF FOUR AGING CLIENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND FOUR FULL-TIME CAREGIVERS THAT IS ADA-COMPLIANT AND ALLOWS THE RESIDENTS TO AGE IN PLACE.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 25 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 | 14 | $207,335 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $244,773 | $15,764 |
| 2023 | 13 | $225,934 | $18,000 |
| 2024 | 13 | $229,031 | $20,000 |
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
98% 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 $15,000 -- 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 Home Builders Charitable Foundation'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 13 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: 10104 Old Olive Street Road, St Louis, MO, 63141.
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