About Vatterott Foundation
The Vatterott Foundation concentrates its philanthropic support exclusively on a single education-focused nonprofit, providing unrestricted assistance to sustain its charitable operations. All recorded grants fund ACCESS ACADEMIES in St. Louis, indicating a targeted, place-based interest in supporting alternative/charter-style educational services for underserved students. The foundation appears to prioritize operational stability over program-specific funding.
Focus Areas
Alternative/charter-style K–12 education for underserved students in St. LouisGeneral operating support for education nonprofitsSchool access and retention programs for at-risk youth
Who They Fund
charitable organization (beneficiary not further specified)
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving: all funds directed to one organization (ACCESS ACADEMIES) across multiple grants, indicating repeat, focused support rather than distributed or diversified funding.
Funding Style
unrestricted supportgeneral operating support
About Vatterott Foundation
A single nonprofit accounts for the clearest pattern in Vatterott Foundation’s recent grantmaking: multiple unrestricted awards to Access Academies in St. Louis, including a $55,500 grant in 2024 and additional grants of $30,000 that same year. That concentration points to a funder that supports the charitable operations of organizations working with students and families in the St. Louis area, rather than spreading support broadly across many institutions. The foundation’s recorded grants also extend into adjacent education and social-service settings, with awards to Vincent Gray Academy in East St. Louis, Illinois, and to organizations serving housing, legal, food, and care needs in the region. Its stated focus areas include Catholic elementary and secondary education for disadvantaged youth, health care for underserved populations, public welfare and services for the poor, support for mothers who choose life for unborn children, and religious advancement. The grant descriptions in the recent awards are consistently framed as assistance for charitable function, reinforcing the foundation’s preference for operational support. Across the record on file, giving remains local and tightly tied to Greater St. Louis.
What Vatterott Foundation Funds
Education is the most visible theme in the recent grants record. Vatterott Foundation gave $15,000 to Vincent Gray Academy in East St. Louis for assistance with its charitable function, and it also awarded $7,500 to Our Lady of Guadalupe School in St. Louis for the same purpose. Catholic school support appears in the foundation’s stated focus areas, which emphasize Catholic elementary and secondary education for disadvantaged youth. Beyond schools, the foundation supports health and care services. It granted $10,000 to Rural Parish Clinic in St. Louis and $10,000 to St. Joachim and Ann Care Center in St. Charles, both described as assistance for charitable function. Social-service organizations also appear in the recent record, including Room at the Inn in Bridgeton and Lydia’s House in St. Louis. Together, these grants show a mix of education, health, and community support within a local St. Louis footprint.
How Vatterott Foundation Gives
The typical grant size is tightly clustered: p25, median, and p75 are all $5,000. Recent awards show a small number of larger grants, but most recorded grants sit at the $5,000 level. The foundation’s pattern is also repetitive rather than one-off, with the same organizations appearing more than once in the recent grants list across 2024 and 2025. Its active programs accept unsolicited requests, including the General Grant Program and Vatterott Foundation Youth Board grants. The grant descriptions consistently use general operating language such as assistance for charitable function, indicating a preference for unrestricted support over project-specific awards.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$131K
Total Assets
$1.1M
Total Revenue
$313K
Total Expenses
$243K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $5K and $5K, with a median of $5K.
25th Percentile
$5K
Median
$5K
75th Percentile
$5K
Geographic Reach
Local3 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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