· 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SL | $6,100 |
| ENERGY CARE | $6,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,100 |
| JOES PLACE | $6,100 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $6,100 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $6,100 |
| ST ANN OF NORMANDY CHURCH SVDPS | $2,100 |
| ST AGATHAS CENTER | $2,100 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $2,100 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK | $2,100 |
| ST PATRICK CENTER | $2,100 |
| ST AUGUSTINE WELLSTON CENTER | $2,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,100 |
| ALMOST HOME WOMENS SHELTER | $2,100 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION | $2,100 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- BOBIRTHRIGHT OF GREATER KANSAS CITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +55%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF STLone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 106 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Marian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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