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Schell Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $385k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL OF ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $60,000 |
| VITAE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SPECIAL LEARNING CENTER | $50,000 |
| CROSS CATHOLIC OUTREACH | $40,000 |
| THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF MARY MOTHER OF CHURCH | $40,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| RAPE AND ABUSE CRISIS CENTER | $25,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTERAL & NORTHERN MISSORI | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| CONCEPTION ABBY | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN CENTER | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $960k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- VFVITAE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $435k · revenue +19%
- CCCAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES8× · 2018–2025 · $425k · revenue +354%
- SRSt Raymond's Society6× · 2018–2023 · $290k · revenue +415%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITYone grant, 2022 · $250k
- MNMOTHER NATIONAL SHRINE OF MARYone grant, 2021 · $60k
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
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,…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We, mercy medical center - centerville and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communitites. mercy medical center - centerville is a member of trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL CITY AREA COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds St Raymond's Society ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds COVENANT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHOW-ME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
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: Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · A J Schwartze Community Foundation · United Way of Central Missouri Inc · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Greater Horizons · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Schell 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.
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