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Regional Business Council
To unite and engage members to act on high-impact business, civic and philanthropic affairs for the betterment of the st.
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.
The 28 grants below total $1,192,554 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,640,770 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $448,216 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $394k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
- $250k+1 grant · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METRO ST LOUIS | $330,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $150,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| KIPP ST LOUIS | $75,000 |
| ST LOUIS POLICE FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $40,000 |
| NPOWER | $25,000 |
| EAST WEST GATEWAY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS | $25,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
| JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL CENTER FOR CYBERSECURITY | $25,000 |
| LOVETHELOU | $25,000 |
| SEED ST LOUIS | $25,000 |
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, $286k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +29% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +184%
- KSKIPP ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $643k · revenue +133%
- GSGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +899%
Funded once
- CPCIVIC PROGRESS INCone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +21%
- SBSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +422%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH COMMISSION OF MISSOURIone grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue -84%
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.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
The St. Louis Workers Education Society (WES) educates and trains St. Louis residents, especially people of color, women and youth, to become community leaders. Our focus is on the intersection of workers rights, racial justice, sexual and…
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
Community Development and Community Center and social services
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Cultural leadership conducts social justice education and leadership training programs for the youth.
A community development financial institution or community development finance institution - abbreviated in both cases to CDFI - is a financial institution that provides credit and financial services to underserved markets and populations,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Asian American Chamber of Commerce of St Louis. 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 25 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 128 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 URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAS Association ↗
- Who funds BETTER FAMILY LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOIUS CIVIC PRIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF METRO ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Center for Cybersecurity at Cortex ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KWAME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEED ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds EYE THRIVE ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CIVIC PROGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds CyberUp ↗
- Who funds THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds St Louis Bicycle Works Inc ↗
- Who funds SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Washington University · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Centene 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 Regional Business Council 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.
- African Peoples Education and Defen — 66% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
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.