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Shanahan 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CANCER FUND | $50,000 |
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NAPLES CHILDREN EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| LIGHTNING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| ST GENEVIEVE DU BOIS CHURCH | $18,000 |
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $17,520 |
| ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF LAW | $13,700 |
| ST LOUIS UNIVERISTY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $13,500 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| ST MARY MAGEALEN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| IMMACULOTA CHURCH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MEDEA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- CGCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +196%
- LFLIGHTNING FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +64%
- FWFranciscan Works6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- L&LUPUS &JUVENILE ARTHRITIS FUND AT ST LOUIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SJST JOHN VIANNEY-JANESVILLEone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SLST LOUIS HERO NETWORKone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +13%
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.
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
A certified home health agency (chha) providing home-based therapy and related rehabilitation services to children and young adults with special needs.
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.
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.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.
Impacting the lives of hospitalized children and their families by raising funds and awareness equally benefiting our member hospitals, st. louis children's hospital and ssm health cardinal glennon children's hospital. funds are used for…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
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 Shriners Hospital for Children. 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 40 years old; the field is 24. 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 116 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 CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds PROMISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Works ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS HERO NETWORK ↗
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: World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Dotopia
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 Shanahan 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.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
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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