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The O'Shaughnessy Family Foundation at a glance

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The O'Shaughnessy Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$37kReligion$23kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kInternational$5kEnvironment$4kEducation$3kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
NATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INC$2,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION$1,000
ST LOUIS WINTER OPERA$1,000
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,000
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM$1,000
ST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH$1,000
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH: $2k → 7%NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM: $1k → 11%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH: $1k → 17%ST MARTHA CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1k → 11%TIMOTHY CARDINAL DOLAN ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNO'S MANSION: $3k → 10%SOPHIA M SACHS BUTTERFLY HOUSE: $1k → 11%SHRINE OF ST JOSEPH: $9k → 21%RI ARTS FOUNDATION OF NEWPORT INC: $500 → 7%NATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2k → 16%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH: $1k → 7%NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM: $1k → 11%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH: $1k → 17%TIMOTHY CARDINAL DOLAN ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%RINGLING MUSEUM: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $2k → 10%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $2k → 11%SHRINE OF ST JOSEPH: $2k → 21%PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $1k → 7%NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $1k → 10%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $1k → 11%SHRINE OF ST JOSEPH: $1k → 21%PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $1k → 7%BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOO SOCIETY: $880 → 11%FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $1k → 10%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $1k → 11%SHRINE OF ST JOSEPH: $1k → 21%PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $1k → 7%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $1k → 11%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 21%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLHOUSE: $3k → 11%MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 21%THE BACKSTOPPERS: $2k → 11%NATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4k → 21%THE BACKSTOPPERS: $1k → 11%NATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1k → 21%THE BACKSTOPPERS: $1k → 11%GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $1k → 21%THE BACKSTOPPERS: $1k → 11%ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 21%THE BACKSTOPPERS: $250 → 11%ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTER: $5k → 21%INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%GREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%ST LOUIS WINTER OPERA: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
18

Total granted

$51k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+51%

Still filing today

58%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +79%
  • TB
    THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +49%
  • NM
    NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IM
    INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -59%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
2
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

—
3
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

—
4
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals
5
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
6
New Orleans Museum of Art

The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.

Arts & Culture
7
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
8
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
9
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
10
National Tropical Botanical Garden

To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.

Environment
11
Museum of the American Revolution

The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.

Arts & Culture
12
Fernbank Inc

Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is International Medical Assistance Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHRINE OF ST JOSEPH: $13,250 · OtherSHRINE OF ST JOSEPHFRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $6,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSIONST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCH: $5,439 · OtherST CATHERINE OF SIENA CHURCHTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $5,400 · OtherTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUISNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $5,135 · OtherNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATIONST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTER: $5,000 · OtherST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · OtherNATIONAL CHILDRENS CANCER SOCIETY INCTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $3,297 · OtherTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETYTIMOTHY CARDINAL DOLAN ARCHBISHOP OF NEW YORK: $3,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOOLHOUSE: $2,500 · Other+12 more: $7,123 · Other+12 moreSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY OR…Old Dartmouth Historical Society: $3,100 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historica…THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVATION SOCIET…RADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO ARTS FOUNDATIONBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENC…INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $2,000 · EnvironmentGREAT RIVERS HABITAT ALLIANCE: $1,721 · EnvironmentThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $150 · EnvironmentGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$60,644Arts & Culture$18,100Health$5,000Environment$3,871Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $6,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TRANSPORTATION: $5,135 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $3,297 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADIO ARTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Edward Jones Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Edward Jones FoundationMO14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward Jones Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The O'Shaughnessy Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The O'Shaughnessy Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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