About Enterprise Holdings Foundation
The Enterprise Holdings Foundation concentrates its giving on large, national-scale investments in environmental conservation, hunger relief, and children's health, while also supporting local St. Louis institutions. Its grants are high-dollar and targeted, often repeating support for major national organizations rather than many small local projects.
Focus Areas
Large-scale land and water conservation (The Nature Conservancy partnerships)National hunger relief and food bank network support (Feeding America)Children's hospital and pediatric health services in St. Louis (Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation)Capacity-building grants to major national nonprofits
Giving Approach
Concentrated, high-dollar grantmaking: a small number of large grants (6 grants totaling $29M) with repeat, multi-year style support to a few national flagship organizations and selective local institutional funding.
Funding Style
program/project fundingrestricted program supportdirect support for program activities
About Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Enterprise Holdings Foundation’s recent grantmaking is marked by repeated seven-figure support for a small set of national partners, especially The Nature Conservancy, Feeding America, and American National Red Cross. One of the clearest signals in the data is a $60 million, 10-year commitment for Routes and Roots, a partnership with The Nature Conservancy focused on rivers and freshwater ecosystems. The foundation also backs hunger relief at scale through a $115 million, 10-year food insecurity initiative and multi-year support for food bank networks. Alongside those national commitments, it funds St. Louis-based institutions tied to children’s health and community services, including Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation, Parents as Teachers, Girls Inc, and Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis. The pattern suggests a grantmaker that combines large restricted program support for national environmental and anti-hunger efforts with substantial operating-style support for selected local and regional nonprofits. Recent awards also show recurring support for the same organizations across multiple years, rather than a one-time, widely distributed portfolio.
What Enterprise Holdings Foundation Funds
Environmental conservation is a central theme. Enterprise Holdings Foundation gave $6,000,000 in 2024 to The Nature Conservancy and another $6,000,000 in 2023 to the same organization for program support, alongside a separate 2023 grant of $2,500,000 to Everglades Foundation. Hunger relief is another major area: the foundation awarded $3,500,000 in 2024 and $3,500,000 in 2023 to Feeding America, and $1,665,725 in 2023 plus $1,464,564 in 2024 to Global FoodBanking Network for program support. In youth and family services, it gave $1,000,000 in 2024 to Parents as Teachers and $1,000,000 in 2024 to Girls Inc. Disaster response is also present through $1,000,000 grants in both 2023 and 2024 to American National Red Cross.
How Enterprise Holdings Foundation Gives
Typical grants are modest relative to the foundation’s largest awards: p25 is $2,000, median is $2,500, and p75 is $5,000. The recent-grants list also shows a small number of much larger restricted program grants, including repeated $1 million and multi-million-dollar awards. Several recipients appear in multiple years, including The Nature Conservancy, Feeding America, National Arbor Day Foundation, American National Red Cross, and Parents as Teachers, which points to recurring support rather than one-off giving. Enterprise Holdings Foundation is classified as a regular funder, not a DAF or individual-giving vehicle, and it does not make program-related investments. The active programs indicate unsolicited applications are not accepted for the named initiatives.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$100.6M
Total Assets
$594.3M
Total Revenue
$150.2M
Total Expenses
$101.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $2K and $5K, with a median of $3K.
25th Percentile
$2K
Median
$3K
75th Percentile
$5K
Geographic Reach
National53 states funded
About 4% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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