· Private foundation
The Marian 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,100 |
| JOES PLACE | $6,100 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $6,100 |
| ENERGY CARE | $6,100 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $6,100 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SL | $6,100 |
| OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE CATHOLIC CH | $2,100 |
| ST MARGARET OF SCOTLAND CATHOLIC CH | $2,100 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK | $2,100 |
| ST PATRICK CENTER | $2,100 |
| BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA | $2,100 |
| ST AUGUSTINE WELLSTON CENTER | $2,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| ST PIUS V CHURCH | $2,100 |
| BRIDGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES | $2,100 |
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 (FY17–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
71 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 36 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +13%
- WCWELLSTON CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +0%
- AHAlmost Home8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF STLone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CRCARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -58%
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.
To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…
To provide outpatient and residential rehabilitative services to individuals and families referred by various government agencies. these individuals include substance abusers, intellectually disabled, developmentally disabled, and abused…
As a faith-based organization, our mission is to create vibrant communities through affordable quality housing where low and moderate income families can thrive, prosper and build wealth.
Community Development and Community Center and social services
House of Good Shepherd serves with love and compassion women and children affected by domestic violence by offering a safe place with opportunities for emotional, educational and spiritual growth, giving hope and continued support for a…
Job placement and aftercare services to poor and homeless individuals.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The mission of assisi house is to provide housing for previoulsy unhoused individuals in small communal settings where each individual is treated with dignity and respect. the organization is founded on the principal that each individual…
Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…
To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…
Inspired by the gospel of the beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center and the most unlike its peers is Joes Place Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 106 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 OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSTON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds The German St Vincent Orphan Association ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF ST LOUIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS RESOURCES FOR SENIORS ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Carondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Vatterott Foundation · Pott Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Tsf
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 Marian 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.
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.