· Private foundation
Maccarthy Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL | $5,010,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $3,000,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| OPERA THEATRE OF SAINT LOUIS | $20,000 |
| RANKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| CITY ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| MARYGROVE CHILD CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE MAGIC HOUSE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +72% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ORCHESTRA8× · 2018–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +72%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc2× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +154%
- CACITY ACADEMY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $620k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- JBJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue -15%
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUISone grant, 2018 · $4.0M · revenue -48%
- RSROSSMAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $3.0M · revenue -39%
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.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
Transforming lives through musical excellence. the goal of the st. louis children's choirs is to empower the youth of st. louis through a rich choral program that helps each young singer realize their full potential - as a musician and as…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
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)
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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,…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 24 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSSMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Opera Theatre of Saint Louis ↗
- Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CARE AND COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds SNEAKERS WITH SOUL ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT F DAVIS MEMORIAL TENNIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Women of Achievement ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
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: Centene Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · August a Busch III Charitable Trust · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · Berges Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maccarthy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maccarthy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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