· Private foundation
Mason Ave Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ANGELS' ARMS | $100,000 |
| G & G FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY OF SAINT LOUIS | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $100,000 |
| AMBASSADORS OF FATHER'S HOUSE | $50,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $50,000 |
| EXTREME STL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $50,000 |
| CAMP BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| KANAKUK MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| BLACK GIRLS DO STEM | $25,000 |
| KENRICK-GLENNON SEMINARY | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $606k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JOJOURNEYS OF HOPE5× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +100% · 100% of their budget
- AAANGELS' ARMS6× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +65%
- SLSt Louis Police Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- ESEXTREME ST LOUIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue +10%
- TSTHE SPIRIT OF ANNECYone grant, 2022 · $125k
- TSTHE SPIRIT OF ANNECY - VISITATION ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $125k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide special education to children with disabilities.
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…
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…
Providing a safe home, compassionate care and high-quality mental health services to children and youth who have experienced significant trauma, to restore their childhood and equip them to productive adulthood.
To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.
A private school providing an exceptional college preparatory program with a specialty in learning disabilities.
The mission of saint louis counseling is to bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate caring presence. the purpose of saint louis counseling is "guided by the teachings of jesus christ, saint…
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,…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To improve the quality of life for people affected by organ and tissue donation and transplantation. to transform our community by eliminating the waiting list for organ and tissue transplants.
To promote positive change for missouri's children and families by supporting the operations of lutheran family and children's services of missouri in the communities they serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Journeys of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JOURNEYS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' ARMS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds EXTREME ST LOUIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPASMODIC DYSPHONIA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD LINKS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bridge Bread Bakery ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds Black Girls Do STEM ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Berges Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mason Ave Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.