Missouri · Private foundation
Shepard McCaskill 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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $330,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Shepard McCaskill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $296k 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 | 9 | $1.6M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $325k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $7k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $101k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $34k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $195k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $112k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $240k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst Place Inc | $605,000 | 2 | 7% |
| True North of Columbia Inc | $330,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheffield Place | $330,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Center for Women in Transition Dba Keyway Center for Diversion & Reentry | $330,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Lydia's House Inc | $275,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Opera Theatre of Saint Louis | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Principia Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound | $97,500 | 7 | 1% |
| The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rescue and Reclaim Reformation Ministry | $37,500 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shepard McCaskill Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · World Wide Technology Foundation · Washington University · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Pecha Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
How this is measured
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About Shepard McCaskill Foundation
- How much does Shepard McCaskill Foundation give?
- Shepard McCaskill Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,609,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shepard McCaskill Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Education (16%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Shepard McCaskill Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Amethyst Place Inc ($605k), True North of Columbia Inc ($330k), Sheffield Place ($330k).
- Does Shepard McCaskill Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shepard McCaskill 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 Shepard McCaskill Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Moneta Group Charitable Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Shepard McCaskill Foundation based?
- Shepard McCaskill Foundation is based in MO.
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