· Private foundation
Farrell Community Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $15,434 |
| St Louis Symphony | $13,000 |
| United Way of Greater St Louis | $10,000 |
| St Roch Church | $4,500 |
| St Louis Public Library | $2,700 |
| Forest Park Forever | $1,250 |
| The Heritage Account Inc | $1,100 |
| Missouri Botanical Garden | $1,000 |
| Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation | $650 |
| Loyola Academy | $500 |
| Crooked Lake Sailors | $500 |
| Kellogg School of Business | $500 |
| Bissell Pet Foundation | $500 |
| St Josephs Academy | $500 |
| Alzheimers Association | $333 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +29%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +137%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- RCRoman Catholic Foundationone grant, 2020 · $4k
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUISone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IRInland Route Historical Societyone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
Principia's primary purpose is to serve the cause of Christian Science as an independent educational institution, providing pre-k - 12th grade education on its campus in St. Louis County, Missouri, and college education on its campus in…
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 46 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds The Heritage Account Inc ↗
- Who funds CROOKED LAKE SAILORS INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE BACH SOCIETY OF SAINT LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLA DI MARIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Farrell Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farrell Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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