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Boniface Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
96
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$27MEducation$11MAnimals$4.9MCommunity Improvement$3.7MRecreation & Sports$3.1MHousing & Shelter$2.2MHuman Services$1.8MYouth Development$896kOther$0
02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $981k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+13 grants · $9.8M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$327M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION$3,000,000
DOGS FOR OUR BRAVE$1,800,000
MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH$1,000,000
BEYOND HOUSING$750,000
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$588,000
INVESTSTL$500,000
LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS$451,500
HEALTH HOMES$375,000
YOUTH IN NEED$270,000
MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL$260,000
OUR LITTLE HAVEN$258,500
ACCESS ACADEMIES$251,500
EYE THRIVE$250,000
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$200,000
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE$200,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH IN NEED: $270k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $171k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $110k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $110k → 5%YOUTH IN NEED: $50k → 5%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $10k → 21%EYE THRIVE: $250k → 21%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $27k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $50k → 21%FEED MY PEOPLE: $15k → 11%FEED MY PEOPLE: $15k → 11%ALL SECURE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THE OASIS INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%THE OASIS INSTITUTE: $15k → 11%THE OASIS INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%THE OASIS INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%THE OASIS INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY: $37k → 11%JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY: $35k → 11%THE JOSHUA CHAMBERLAIN SOCIETY: $10k → 11%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $20k → 11%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $20k → 11%ST MARTHA'S HALL: $10k → 11%THE COVERING HOUSE: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48M · 58 repeat orgs$7.0M to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
17

Total granted

$48M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+41%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MH
    MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $26M · revenue +40%
  • NS
    NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +219% · 58% of their budget
  • LA
    LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M
  • HA
    HEALTH AND HOMES ST LOUISgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue +52%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
St Patrick Partnership Center

To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.

—
3
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
4
Ssm Health Foundation - St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.

—
5
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
6
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…

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7
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
8
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
9
Ssm Health Care St Louis

Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.

Health
10
St Francis Community Services

St. francis community services empowers low-income multicultural individuals and families by providing educational opportunities, holistic services, and legal aid to create a lasting impact on their lives and our communities.

—
11
St Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

—
12
Peace for Kids

The mission of peace for kids is to provide a comprehensive, quality child development program for a diverse socioeconomic and cultural population. peace for kids is committed to assisting working families with safe, quality child care at…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Louis Counseling Inc; the most unlike its peers is All Secure Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/60
Grantees still filing
38/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH: $26,217,000 · HealthMERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH+10 more: $675,066 · HealthYMCA: $3,000,000 · OtherYMCAST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION: $3,000,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATIONST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,639,500 · OtherST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONOUR LITTLE HAVEN: $803,500 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $730,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $681,750 · Other+47 more: $4,402,414 · Other+47 moreMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $1,426,100 · EducationMARIAN MIDD…LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $1,361,500 · EducationLOYOLA ACAD…ACCESS ACADEMIES: $1,178,000 · EducationACCESS ACAD…INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $620,500 · EducationINCARNATE W…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $459,700 · EducationST LOUIS UN…MISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT NETWORK: $197,000 · Education+4 more: $207,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND: $2,475,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $85,000 · Community ImprovementDogs For Our Brave Inc: $1,853,500 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $200,000 · Public BenefitBEYOND HOUSING INC: $1,500,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH IN NEED: $711,000 · Human ServicesEYE THRIVE: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Joshua Chamberlain Society: $81,500 · Human ServicesFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $71,500 · Human ServicesTHE OASIS INSTITUTE: $65,000 · Human ServicesST MARTHA'S HALL: $50,000 · Human Services+4 more: $45,500 · Human Services
Health$26,892,066Other$15,257,164Education$5,449,800Community Improvement$2,560,000Public Benefit$2,053,500Housing & Shelter$1,525,000Human Services$1,499,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH: $26,217,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND: $2,475,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc: $1,853,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $1,426,100 over 5y, 10% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $1,361,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetACCESS ACADEMIES: $1,178,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetOUR LITTLE HAVEN: $803,500 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetYOUTH IN NEED: $711,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetINCARNATE WORD ACADEMY: $620,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $459,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEYE THRIVE: $250,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND: $250,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $221,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetDUO DOGS INC: $200,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT NETWORK: $197,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH: $148,566 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetREADY READERS: $145,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $91,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Joshua Chamberlain Society: $81,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $71,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE OASIS INSTITUTE: $65,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FOR LIFE: $60,750 over 3y, 24% of budgetAFFTON CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY: $60,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetLIVING WELL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetHEALTH AND HOMES ST LOUIS: $55,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNEW DIMENSIONS SOCCER CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSAINT LOUIS COUNSELING INC: $54,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetST MARTHA'S HALL: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $35,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $32,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Joseph Housing Initiative: $25,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSMART INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSt Louis Survivors' Legal Support Inc: $16,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SOLIDARITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Dogs For Our Brave Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EYE THRIVE ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGE AND CAREER ATTAINMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION SOUTH ↗
  • Who funds READY READERS ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…Youthbridge Community…St Louis Community Fo…Moneta Group Charitab…Berges Family Foundat…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Edward Jones Foundati…Norman J Stupp Founda…Brown Dana Charitable…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO71× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Berges Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boniface Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boniface Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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