· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ARCHWAY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| YOUR WORDS STL | $10,000 |
| FIND THE LIGHT FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CHAMINADE COLLEGE PREP | $200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $125 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +29% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 30 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 79 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joan & John Vatterott Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joan & John Vatterott Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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