Missouri · Private foundation
Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $534k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $534k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $482k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $329k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $342k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $248k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $439k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $376k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $239k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of New Mexico Foundation Inc | $440,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Characterplus | $387,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Salvation Army | $146,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | $143,333 | 9 | 0% |
| Missouri Historical Society | $101,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $63,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Council | $45,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Miriam Foundation | $40,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Webster University | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $38,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Leon and Mary Strauss Charitable Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation with peer funders
About Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation
- How much does Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation give?
- Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $533,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (33%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of New Mexico Foundation Inc ($440k), Characterplus ($388k), Salvation Army ($146k).
- Does Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Centene Foundation, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation based?
- Mr & Mrs Sanford N McDonnell Foundation is based in MO.
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