· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CANCER FUND | $50,000 |
| LIGHTNING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NAPLES CHILDREN EDUCATION | $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 JOESEPH'S ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CARMELITE MONASTERY | $10,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN FT WORTH | $10,000 |
| COOKS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS HERO NETWORK ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shanahan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shanahan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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