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Vassia Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rosai-Kain High School | $20,000 |
| Rosai-Kain High School | $20,000 |
| Covenant House Missouri | $10,000 |
| St Louis Crisis Nursery | $10,000 |
| Casa of St Louis | $10,000 |
| St Louis Cathedral Concerts | $8,000 |
| Marian Middle School | $7,500 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul | $6,000 |
| Ready Readers | $5,000 |
| St Louis Catholic Academy | $5,000 |
| Our Lady's Inn | $5,000 |
| Our Little Haven | $5,000 |
| The Biome Steam School | $5,000 |
| Saint Martha's Hall | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -95% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- SLST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +29%
- COCASA OF ST LOUIS6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +42%
- CJCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- DLDE LA SALLE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -95%
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.
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.
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
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…
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…
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.
Providing a safe home, compassionate care and high-quality mental health services to children and youth who have experienced significant trauma, to restore their childhood and equip them to productive adulthood.
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…
To facilitate and deliver high quality clinical and mental health services for uninsured and underinsured patients, focusing on new immigrants and refugees who encounter barriers to accessing other sources of care.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Martha's Hall and the most unlike its peers is Criminal Justice Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds St Louis Cathedral Concerts ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OUR LITTLE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ST MARTHA'S HALL ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds St Louis ArtWorks ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE INC ↗
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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pott Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Jefferson Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology 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 Vassia Family Charitable 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.
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