· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOYOLA ACADEMY OF SAINT LOUIS | $100,000 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $100,000 |
| ANGELS' ARMS | $100,000 |
| G & G FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $50,000 |
| MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY | $50,000 |
| AMBASSADORS OF FATHER'S HOUSE | $50,000 |
| EXTREME STL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CAMP BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| KANAKUK MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| BLACK GIRLS DO STEM | $25,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| KENRICK-GLENNON SEMINARY | $25,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +47% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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 ANNECY - VISITATION ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $125k
- TSTHE SPIRIT OF ANNECYone grant, 2022 · $125k
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.
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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 77 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 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mason Ave Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mason Ave Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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