· Private foundation
Vincent E and Mary Judith Shaw Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of VINCENT E AND MARY JUDITH SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MUNY | $1,500 |
| MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL | $825 |
| SERRA CLUB | $575 |
| JOSEPH & JOAN LIPIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $500 |
| BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP FOUNDATION | $350 |
| ST LOUIS CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $250 |
| BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $213 |
| BIRTHRIGHT COUNSELING ST LOUIS | $150 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS SERVICES | $150 |
| ORDER OF MALTA MISSOURI AREA | $150 |
| STE GENEVIEVE DU BOIS | $124 |
| CENTER FOR ENRICHED LIVING | $103 |
| FATHER BOBS OUTREACH | $100 |
| ST JOSEPH CHURCH | $100 |
| ST ANSELM PARISH | $100 |
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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- MTMUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +95%
- CSCarmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus6× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +61%
- RPRURAL PARISH WORKERS OF CHRIST THE KING3× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- THThe Healing Chair Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +116%
- SCSIERRA CLUBone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE RURAL PARISH WORKERSone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the health presence of god.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional care to every patient, every time.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
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To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
In the tradition of the sisters of st. joseph of carondelet and in partnership with benedictine, nazareth living center participates in the healing ministry of jesus ministering with compassion and responding creatively to the needs of…
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…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 80 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 146 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 MUNICIPAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus ↗
- Who funds RURAL PARISH WORKERS OF CHRIST THE KING ↗
- Who funds OUR LADYS INN ↗
- Who funds The Healing Chair Inc ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL HOME ↗
- Who funds CRUDEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH GROUP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
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 · The Shaughnessy Family Foundation · Ross Family Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Ravarino Family Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · International Charitable Foundation · The Theodore a Kienstra Foundation · The Crawford Taylor 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 Vincent E and Mary Judith Shaw 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.
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.