· Private foundation
The Shaughnessy 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 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $310k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS | $2,137,778 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $125,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $70,000 |
| DOORWAYS | $65,000 |
| MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| COR JESU ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN | $25,000 |
| SLUHS - GO FORTH CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
76 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 1 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +28%
- IRINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +28%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH'S ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $100k
- RSRELIGIOUS SISTERS OF MERCY OF ALMAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUISgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +52%
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.
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,…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
University is a 4 year private catholic institution, offering degrees in nursing, health/behavioral sciences, & humanities. the college is an integral part of the fmol health system.
Inspired by the vision of st. francis and in the tradition of the roman catholic church, we extend the healing ministry of jesus christ to god's people, especially those most in need. we call forth all who serve in this healthcare…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To provide christ-like healing to the community through education, treatment and health services. see schedule o for additional information. since 1900, st bernards has served as our community's trusted provider of comprehensive,…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Meds & Food for Kids. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 119 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 ROMAN CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE INC ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH LIVING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ONE CLASSROOM ↗
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 · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Vincent E and Mary Judith Shaw Family Foundation · Ross Family Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Ravarino Family Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · International Charitable Foundation · Pecha Family Foundation
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 Shaughnessy Family 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.
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.