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Vatterott 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC LEGAL ASSISTANCE MINISTRY | $7,500 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELET | $5,000 |
| MIDTOWN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCES CABRINI ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES | $5,000 |
| PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| ST PETER AND PAUL PARISH | $5,000 |
| BLESSED TERESA OF CALCUTTA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROOM AT THE INN | $5,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $5,000 |
| SISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LYDIA'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| RITENOUR CO CARE FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| ST JOACHIM AND ANN CARE CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $132k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 61% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- AAACCESS ACADEMIES7× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +7%
- PPPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +191%
- DUDEPAUL USA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- VCVINCENTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SFSOCIETY FOR ST VINCENT DEPAULone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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…
St. patrick center transforms lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
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.…
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…
High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…
Care of unhoused pregnant women and their children.
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…
A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queen of Peace Center and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 130 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 ACCESS ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds Vincent Gray Academy ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL RITTER SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds Room at the Inn ↗
- Who funds The Franciscan Connection ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI ENERGYCARE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN CHARGE ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds RURAL PARISH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Housing Initiative ↗
- Who funds St Mary's South Side Catholic High School ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Pott 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 Vatterott 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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