· Public charity
One Classroom
ONE CLASSROOM supports the inclusion of children with special needs in local catholic parish schools by educating about inclusive learning, providing access to expert resources, and creating forums to share best practices.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $345,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $628,889 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $283,789 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY QUEEN OF PEACE | $41,800 |
| ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI | $32,100 |
| INCARNATE WORD PARISH | $24,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH | $23,100 |
| SACRED HEART PARISH | $22,500 |
| ST FRANCIS BORGIA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $19,500 |
| ST FERDINAND | $19,200 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| OUR LADY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| ST MARY MAGDALEN PARISH | $15,000 |
| ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| ST PATRICK | $11,400 |
| OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR | $10,000 |
| ST AGNES CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
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
- MQMARY QUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH4× · 2021–2024 · $194k
- SFST FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH OAKVILLE4× · 2021–2024 · $103k
- IWINCARNATE WORD CATHOLIC CHURCH4× · 2021–2024 · $99k
Funded once
- MQMary Queen of Peaceone grant, 2020 · $60k
- IWIncarnate Word Parishone grant, 2020 · $23k
- CTChrist The Kingone grant, 2020 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2024.
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 2020–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 29 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.
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: Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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.
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