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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MEducation$447kHousing & Shelter$358kCrime & Legal$334kArts & Culture$153kHealth$145kReligion$57kCommunity Improvement$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
$275,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHEFFIELD PLACE$330,000
AMETHYST PLACE INC$330,000
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC$330,000
CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION$330,000
LYDIAS HOUSE$275,000
RESCUE AND RECLAIM REFORMATION MINISTRY$10,000
CREATE A LOOP$2,500
WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT$1,000
MARSHFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $28k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $10k → 16%BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON: $5k → 14%UF FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 9%CREATE A LOOP: $5k → 11%TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE: $25k → 15%ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%10000 BEDS: $10k → 13%LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%STARTING HEARTS: $10k → 7%CHILDREN'S ORGAN TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION: $5k → 18%CREW FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%ISLAMIC-AMERICAN ZAKAT FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 16%BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 9%TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE: $10k → 15%THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $10k → 17%ST LOUIS ARTWORKS: $11k → 21%SHEFFIELD PLACE: $330k → 15%ST LOUIS ARTWORKS: $7k → 21%AMETHYST PLACE INC: $330k → 15%AMETHYST PLACE INC: $275k → 15%WEPOWER: $10k → 21%THE PRINCIPIA: $100k → 11%JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $10k → 11%OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $35k → 11%OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%COLLEGE BOUND: $21k → 21%ALL ABOUT PAWS RESCUE: $8k → 11%COLLEGE BOUND: $20k → 21%OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $25k → 11%COLLEGE BOUND: $20k → 21%ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK: $7k → 11%COLLEGE BOUND: $14k → 21%OPERA THEATRE OF ST LOUIS: $10k → 11%COLLEGE BOUND: $10k → 21%COLLEGE BOUND: $10k → 21%LYDIAS HOUSE: $275k → 21%FORSYTH SCHOOL: $15k → 11%CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION: $330k → 21%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $10k → 11%RESCUE AND RECLAIM REFORMATION MINISTRY: $10k → 11%RESCUE AND RECLAIM REFORMATION MINISTRY: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
UT
CO
MO
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Shepard McCaskill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Shepard McCaskill Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 34 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
45

Total granted

$1.3M
$289k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+40%

Still filing today

65%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OT
    Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
    5× · 2017–2022 · $120k · revenue +150%
  • AM
    A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND
    7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +26%
  • TH
    THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    3× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TP
    The Principia Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +76%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2017 · $28k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    The CREW Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Webster University

Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
8
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
9
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Community Trust; the most unlike its peers is Create a Loop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
44/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Amethyst Place Inc: $605,000 · HealthAmethyst Place IncBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $28,000 · Health+11 more: $86,500 · Health+11 moreSHEFFIELD PLACE: $330,000 · Housing & ShelterSHEFFIELD PLACELydia's House Inc: $275,000 · Housing & ShelterLydia's House Inc+4 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $330,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR WO…+2 more: $3,500 · Crime & LegalTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $330,000 · Human ServicesTRUE NORTH OF…UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - BETTY ANN MCCASKILL MEMORIAL FUND: $98,900 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MIS…RESCUE AND RECLAIM REFORMATION MINISTRY: $37,500 · OtherRESCUE AND RECLAI…VALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS OF ST LOUIS: $15,000 · OtherA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $97,500 · OtherA MILLION STARS I…BARTLESVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+40 more: $166,800 · Other+40 moreThe Principia Corporation: $100,000 · EducationThe Princ…THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $40,000 · EducationTHE HARRY…FORSYTH SCHOOL INC: $34,600 · EducationFORSYTH S…JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $18,500 · EducationJOHN BURR…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+5 more: $24,000 · Education+5 moreOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $120,000 · Arts & CultureSt Louis ArtWorks: $21,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$719,500Housing & Shelter$625,000Crime & Legal$333,500Human Services$330,000Other$445,700Education$227,100Arts & Culture$148,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $605,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE: $330,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $330,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $275,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $120,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Principia Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $97,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFORSYTH SCHOOL INC: $34,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks: $21,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetStarting Hearts: $20,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe CREW Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEPOWER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADY READERS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCREATE A LOOP: $7,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIslamic American Zakat Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEBSTER GROVES HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF PUERTO RICO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZON HOUSING FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY PET GUARDIANS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIGHTY OAKES HEART FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Moneta Group Charitab…St Louis Community Fo…Trio Foundation of St…Commerce Bancshares F…Brown Dana Charitable…World Wide Technology…Washington UniversityUnited Way of Greater…Employees Community F…Pecha Family Foundati…William T Kemper Foun…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO29.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Shepard McCaskill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shepard McCaskill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Shepard McCaskill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Shepard McCaskill Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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