Missouri · Private foundation
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.
- $520k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Shanahan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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 | 56 | $520k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $406k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $385k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $389k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $427k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $269k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Cancer Fund | $115,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Promise Christian Academy | $93,500 | 6 | 1% |
| De Smet Jesuit High School | $87,500 | 6 | n/a |
| Lightning Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Franciscan Works | $70,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis | $56,500 | 5 | 0% |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $55,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Humane Society of Missouri | $52,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Immacolata Catholic Church | $50,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shanahan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About Shanahan Family Foundation
- How much does Shanahan Family Foundation give?
- Shanahan Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $520,220 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Shanahan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (25%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Shanahan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation ($200k), Community Cancer Fund ($115k), Promise Christian Academy ($94k).
- Does Shanahan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shanahan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shanahan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc.
- Where is Shanahan Family Foundation based?
- Shanahan Family Foundation is based in MO.
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