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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.

$108k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
40
Grants FY2024
56
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,100
Organizations funded a year
54 to 62
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Marian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving40$108k13%
FY202356$104k0%
FY202256$128k0%
FY202156$106k0%
FY202056$93k23%
FY201954$116k6%
FY201854$56k43%
FY201762$57kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$378kHuman Services$133kFood & Nutrition$76kYouth Development$42kHousing & Shelter$31kHealth$27kCrime & Legal$18kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of The Marian Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Operation Food Search Inc$21,84180%
Missouri Energycare Inc$17,14174%
Wellston Center$16,34171%
Almost Home$16,04180%
The German St Vincent Orphan Association$15,74170%
Covenant House Missouri$14,54160%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$14,44180%
St Patrick Center$14,24180%
Center for Women in Transition Dba Keyway Center for Diversion & Reentry$13,74180%
Birthright Counseling St Louis$13,74180%
Community Action Agency of St Louis County Inc$13,54170%
St Andrews Resources for Seniors$13,54180%
The Lighthouse for the Blind$13,24180%
Carondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc$12,74170%
Immaculate Conception Church$12,7417n/a
St Angela Merici Catholic Church$12,1417n/a
Bridge of Hope Ministries$11,84161%
St Sabina Catholic Church$11,3417n/a
Guardian Angel Settlement Association$11,04160%
St Cronan Catholic Church$10,9917n/a
St Nicholas Catholic Church$10,9917n/a
Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church$10,9917n/a
St Norbert Catholic Church$10,9917n/a
St Ferdinand Catholic Church$10,9917n/a
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church$10,6416n/a
Joes Place Corporation$6,10013%
Salvation Army$4,7003n/a
Gene Slay's Boys' Club of St Louis Inc$3,20020%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc$2,20020%
Christ the King Catholic Church$2,1001n/a
Criminal Justice Ministry$2,10010%
St Anselm Catholic Church$2,1001n/a
Birthright of Greater Kansas City$1,5001n/a
Cardinal Ritter Senior Services$1,50010%
Our Ladys Inn$1,50010%
St George Catholic Church$1,3502n/a
Annie Malone Children and Family Service$1,00010%
Holy Trinity Catholic Church$8001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($402k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Marian Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $21,841 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Energycare Inc: $17,141 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetWellston Center: $16,341 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAlmost Home: $16,041 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe German St Vincent Orphan Association: $15,741 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant House Missouri: $14,541 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSt Louis Area Food Bank Inc: $14,441 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSt Patrick Center: $14,241 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Women in Transition Dba Keyway Center for Diversion & Reentry: $13,741 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBirthright Counseling St Louis: $13,741 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Action Agency of St Louis County Inc: $13,541 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Andrews Resources for Seniors: $13,541 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lighthouse for the Blind: $13,241 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCarondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc: $12,741 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBridge of Hope Ministries: $11,841 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetGuardian Angel Settlement Association: $11,041 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJoes Place Corporation: $6,100 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGene Slay's Boys' Club of St Louis Inc: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCriminal Justice Ministry: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCardinal Ritter Senior Services: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Ladys Inn: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnnie Malone Children and Family Service: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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 Foundation IncMO41.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About The Marian Foundation

How much does The Marian Foundation give?
The Marian Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $108,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Marian Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (49%), Human Services (17%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are The Marian Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Operation Food Search Inc ($22k), Missouri Energycare Inc ($17k), Wellston Center ($16k).
Does The Marian Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Marian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Marian Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.
Where is The Marian Foundation based?
The Marian Foundation is based in MO.

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 106 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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