· Private foundation
Vassia Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| St Louis Crisis Nursery | $10,000 |
| Casa of St Louis | $10,000 |
| Covenant House Missouri | $10,000 |
| St Louis Cathedral Concerts | $8,000 |
| Marian Middle School | $7,500 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul | $6,000 |
| Our Little Haven | $5,000 |
| St Louis Catholic Academy | $5,000 |
| Ready Readers | $5,000 |
| Our Lady's Inn | $5,000 |
| The Biome Steam School | $5,000 |
| Saint Martha's Hall | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -95% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vassia Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vassia Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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