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The Joan & John Vatterott Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE JOAN & JOHN VATTEROTT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARSHALL PROJECT | $50,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $50,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ACCESS ACADEMIES | $25,000 |
| CHADS COALITION | $10,000 |
| ARCHWAY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| YOUR WORDS STL | $10,000 |
| FIND THE LIGHT FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREP | $200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $125 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
35 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- AAACCESS ACADEMIES8× · 2017–2024 · $693k · revenue +7%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2021 · $430k · revenue +24%
- TGTHE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE4× · 2018–2021 · $192k · revenue +750% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- JCJESUITS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCEone grant, 2021 · $160k
- ADARCHCITY DEFENDERSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +92%
- YBYouth Bridge Incone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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.
To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
St. louis language immersion school provides a bilingual, culturally responsive, transformational education that enriches the children of st. louis city.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Earlystart carries out its mission "building bridges. inspiring minds. impacting futures." through the earlystart child and family development centers. highly-trained faculty utilize a project-based curriculum in an arts-infused…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
Missoula international school inspires principled global citizens and lifelong learners through a challenging bilingual education from preschool to eighth grade.
Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…
Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access Academies and the most unlike its peers is Youth Bridge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 80 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ACCESS ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds St Francis Mission ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN HOUSE VENTURE ↗
- Who funds LARCHE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOULARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARCHCITY DEFENDERS ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Children in Need ↗
- Who funds Youth Bridge Inc ↗
- Who funds Lollys Place Inc ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Boniface Foundation · Mark a and Deborah a Wilhelm Foundation · Vatterott Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Joan & John Vatterott Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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