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James S McDonnell Foundation: 82 grants to organizations, $30.1 million (tax year ended December 2024)
James S McDonnell Foundation, a private foundation in St Louis, MO, paid 82 grants to organizations totaling $30,094,150 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 12, 2025. The largest was $5,120,000 to Forest Park Forever Inc in St Louis, MO for in support of "forever: the campaign for forest park's future".
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- EIN
- 542074788
- Based in
- St Louis, MO
- Assets
- $647,048,513
- Grants paid
- $30,094,150
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 12, 2025, IRS object ID 202523169349102707. It reported $30,094,150 in grants paid; 82 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Park Forever Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of "forever: the campaign for forest park's future" | Environment | $5,120,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University | St Louis, MO | Umsl school of engineering & student support | $3,361,590 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Federation of American Scientists | Washington, DC | In support of the economic mobility initiative | International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Building a framework for lasting wealth: a proposal for baby bonds in st. louis | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $1,950,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Davis & Elkins College | Elkins, WV | Endowment f/t secure the future campaign, phase ii | Education | $1,160,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Small Business Empowerment Center | St Louis, MO | St. louis low-income investment fund and technical assistance (st. louis lift) | Community improvement and capacity building | $1,000,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Guaranteed basic income pilot | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $1,000,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Guaranteed basic income pilot | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $966,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | St Louis, MO | Building our financial future | Housing and shelter | $900,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Neighborhood Solidarity Fund | Clayton, MO | In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings | $782,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Wepower | St Louis, MO | Developing a data-driven, community-centric strategy to coordinate & transform the st. louis early childhood system | Community improvement and capacity building | $637,539 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Science Center Foundation | St Louis, MO | For the st. louis science center campaign to be launched in 2024, with the specific purpose of this gift to be decided later | Science and technology | $575,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Biostl | Saint Louis, MO | Bioscience workforce collaborative: catalyzing equitable career pathways and enhancing the workforce system to improve economic mobility for opportunity youth | Education | $565,297 | apps.irs.gov |
| Biostl | Saint Louis, MO | Bioscience workforce collaborative: catalyzing equitable career pathways and enhancing the workforce system to improve economic mobility for opportunity youth | Education | $565,297 | apps.irs.gov |
| Biostl | Saint Louis, MO | Biogenerator: building innovation economy leaders through the bioscience equitableleadership (bel) venture fellows program | Education | $514,985 | apps.irs.gov |
| Biostl | Saint Louis, MO | Biogenerator: building innovation economy leaders through the bioscience equitableleadership (bel) venture fellows program | Education | $514,985 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Preparing teachers to facilitate asset-based science & literacy discourse in dual and multilingual elementary classrooms | Employment | $503,325 | apps.irs.gov |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | Facilitating digital discourse: teachers as learners in a digital age | Education | $494,831 | apps.irs.gov |
| Iff | Chicago, IL | Joyful spaces | Community improvement and capacity building | $350,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Temple University-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | The development of novice teachers role-identities as discussion facilitators in social studies classrooms | Education | $345,562 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Advancing st. louis early childhood education priorities through convening and capacity building | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $331,516 | apps.irs.gov |
| Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | Teachers as thinkers: improving classroom communication in mathematics | $318,097 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Missouri Historical Society Jefferson Memorial Building | St Louis, MO | For exhibit gallery renovation and exhibit endowment. | Arts, culture and humanities | $303,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado | Boulder, CO | Developing a model of teacher learning to support computationally rich communication in science classrooms | $300,026 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Entrepreneur Startup Business Development Corporation | St Louis, MO | Arch grants community capital fund | Community improvement and capacity building | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis | St Louis, MO | General support of the mission | Human services | $275,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University | St Louis, MO | To support undergraduates aiming toward and marticulated in the umsl/wustl joint engineering program | $235,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Goalsetter Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | Ferguson florissant financial empowerment project | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $227,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Goalsetter Foundation | Brooklyn, NY | Ferguson florissant financial empowerment project | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $227,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Life Sciences Project | St Louis, MO | General purposes | Medical research | $225,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Cortex | St Louis, MO | Assessing impact of first year of missouri tech first | Community improvement and capacity building | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University | St Louis, MO | St. louis anchor action network capacity building grant | $193,329 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University | St Louis, MO | St. louis anchor action network capacity building grant | $193,329 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Regional response team capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $166,985 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Regional response team capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $166,985 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Regional response team capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $166,985 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Regional response team capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $166,985 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | North star community partners capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $155,182 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | North star community partners capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $155,182 | apps.irs.gov |
| Arizona Board of Regents University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | Teachers as thinkers: improving classroom communication in mathematics | $131,472 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Louis Zoo Foundation | St Louis, MO | The campaign for the st. louis zoo | Animal-related | $120,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital | St Louis, MO | Challenge grant - to endow and support the new initiative in palliative care and formation of the institute for supportive care at bjc health (isc). | Health care | $110,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | Civic collaboration fellows: building leadership capacity for economic mobility | $104,727 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Neighborhood Solidarity Fund | Clayton, MO | In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings | $100,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Neighborhood Solidarity Fund | Clayton, MO | In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings | $100,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Neighborhood Solidarity Fund | Clayton, MO | In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings | $100,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Neighborhood Solidarity Fund | Clayton, MO | In support of staffing, pilot program costs, evaluation, and dissemination of findings | $100,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Masters Chancellor and Scholars of the University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK | Emergence and self-organization of patterns in planetary polar atmospheres | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Boston, MA | Integrative theory of memory and cognitive processes | $91,478 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | Civic collaboration fellows: building leadership capacity for economic mobility | $77,381 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Clark-Fox Family Foundation | St Louis, MO | For blueprint4 to provide stem scholarships | Education | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Eisenhower Fellowships Inc | Philadelphia, PA | To endow on named st. louis usa fellowship annually | $67,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Univeridad Adolfo Ibooez | CI | A method for studying shared meaning in cultural groups | $62,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | Planning, implementation, and evaluation of city connects in the school district of university city in st. louis, mo | Education | $58,134 | apps.irs.gov |
| Boston College Trustees | Chestnut Hill, MA | Planning, implementation, and evaluation of city connects in the school district of university city in st. louis, mo | Education | $58,134 | apps.irs.gov |
| Arch Grants | St Louis, MO | Campaign to endow the grant-making to attract start-up companies in st. louis | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Harris-Stowe Foundation Inc | St Louis, MO | Harris-stowe university strategic assessment and planning initiative: visiting committee support - part 1 | Education | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University | St Louis, MO | St. louis anchor action network capacity building grant | $49,920 | apps.irs.gov | |
| A Red Circle | St Louis, MO | Exploring and creating a cooperative kitchen and ecosystem for food entrepreneurs | Education | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Curators of the University of Missouri-St Louis On Behalf of the University | St Louis, MO | Umsls climb program support | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Lovethelou | St Louis, MO | Lift mentoring | Community improvement and capacity building | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | For loan loss reserve fund accompanying impact investment deposits to enable increased business lending to non-prime and sub-prime borrowers with a focus on small/midsized/diverse owned companies prim | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Services of Eastern Mo Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | Crime and legal-related | $39,316 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Services of Eastern Mo Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | Crime and legal-related | $39,316 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Services of Eastern Mo Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | Crime and legal-related | $39,316 | apps.irs.gov |
| Legal Services of Eastern Mo Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | Crime and legal-related | $39,316 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Preparing teachers to facilitate asset-based science & literacy discourse in dual and multilingual elementary classrooms | Employment | $36,163 | apps.irs.gov |
| Healthcare Anchor Network Inc | Washington, DC | 2024 stl convening - regional sponsorship | Health care | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Washington University in St Louis | St Louis, MO | For the endowment of the danforth scholars program in honor of william h. danforth | $30,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Jayson Tatum Foundation | St Louis, MO | 4th annual the jayson tatum foundationcharity golf tournament | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Fam | University City, MO | Homecoming gala - silver sponsorship | Housing and shelter | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wepower | St Louis, MO | St. louis market rate survey rapid response coordination | Community improvement and capacity building | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Harris-Stowe Foundation Inc | St Louis, MO | Harris-stowe university strategic assessment and planning initiative: visiting committee support - part 2 | Education | $22,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Masters Chancellor and Scholars of the University of Cambridge | Cambridge, UK | Emergence and self-organization of patterns in planetary polar atmospheres | $21,532 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Louis American Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | 37th annual salute to excellence in education scholarship & awards gala - salutatorian | Education | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Paraquad Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | $13,813 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Paraquad Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | $13,813 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Paraquad Inc | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | $13,813 | apps.irs.gov | |
| St Louis Integrated Health Network | St Louis, MO | In support of staffing, technology, initiative operations, stipends to partnering home repair organizations | Medical research | $13,813 | apps.irs.gov |
| St Louis Community Foundation | St Louis, MO | Regional response team capacity building grant | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ivy Foundation of St Louis | University City, MO | Phirst phamily paragon awards & soiree sponsorship | $3,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| From K-1S | St Louis, MO | Charitable | $1,181 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $5,729,820 |
| Environment | $5,120,000 |
| Education | $4,479,225 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $2,552,539 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $2,250,000 |
| Housing and shelter | $925,000 |
| Science and technology | $575,000 |
| Employment | $539,488 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| Missouri | $23,256,896 |
| District of Columbia | $2,285,000 |
| West Virginia | $1,160,000 |
| Pennsylvania | $907,393 |
| Washington | $539,488 |
| New York | $454,000 |
| Arizona | $449,569 |
| Illinois | $350,000 |
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Updated November 12, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.