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Snug Harbor 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.

$900k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$10MInternational$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.8MFood & Nutrition$365kEducation$225kAnimals$170kPhilanthropy$65kHuman Services$20k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $815k
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$225,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$200,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
UNICEF$90,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK$75,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$75,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$50,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$30,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS$20,000
THE ANIMAL HOUSE OF JAMAICA$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $225k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $225k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $150k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $75k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 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

NY
CT
CA
MO
MD
NC
HI
MS
GA
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 10% of Snug Harbor Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 87%.

Snug Harbor Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 8 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$13M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SL
    ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $9.9M · revenue +401%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +27%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $290k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -32%
  • TR
    The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children
    one grant, 2022 · $325k · revenue +8%
  • TA
    THE ALS ASSOCIATION ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
3
Lawrence Humane Society

The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community

Animals
4
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
5
Paws Chicago

Paws chicago is a national leader in the no kill animal welfare movement, helping more than 23,842 homeless and at-risk pets each year through comprehensive spay/neuter, medical, and adoption programs.

Animals
6
Wisconsin Humane Society

The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.

Animals
7
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…

Animals
8
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
9
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
10
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
11
The Humane League

We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…

Animals
12
Central Missouri Humane Society

Promotes the well-being of companion animals and pets that enrich the lives of the people who love them.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,900,000 · HealthST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+1 more: $325,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $2,000,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOU…THE ALS ASSOCIATION ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAPTER: $250,000 · OtherTHE ALS ASSOCIATION…ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $225,000 · OtherST LOUIS AREA FOOD …ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherKIPP ST LOUIS: $100,000 · Other+2 more: $35,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,705,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $150,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $140,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $75,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $290,000 · ReligionST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $50,000 · AnimalsSTRAY PAWS RESCUE: $50,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE: $25,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $125,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$10,225,000Other$2,710,000Human Services$1,725,000International$615,000Religion$290,000Philanthropy$190,000Animals$145,000Food & Nutrition$140,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $9,900,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ST LOUIS: $2,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,705,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children: $325,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $290,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $140,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF FLORIDA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Employees Community F…Edward Jones Foundati…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…St Louis Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Employees Community Fund of the Boeing CompanyIL15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Snug Harbor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snug Harbor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 26 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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The camps
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By state
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