Missouri · Public charity
Regional Business Council
To unite and engage members to act on high-impact business, civic and philanthropic affairs for the betterment of the st. Louis region.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $330,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Regional Business Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.1M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.3M | 41% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $1000k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $841k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis | $2,100,235 | 9 | 1% |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $653,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Kipp St Louis | $643,363 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater St Louis Inc Foundation | $525,000 | 6 | 3% |
| PAS Association | $400,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Better Family Life Inc | $298,900 | 3 | 1% |
| St Louis Police Foundation | $255,700 | 9 | 2% |
| The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education | $250,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Npower Inc | $250,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Loius Civic Pride Foundation | $229,330 | 5 | 73% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Regional Business Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Regional Business Council
- How much does Regional Business Council give?
- Regional Business Council reported 28 itemized grants totaling $1,192,554, out of $1,640,770 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Regional Business Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Education (17%), Employment (12%).
- Who are Regional Business Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis ($2.1M), United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($654k), Kipp St Louis ($643k).
- Does Regional Business Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Regional Business Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, St Louis Community Foundation.
- Where is Regional Business Council based?
- Regional Business Council is based in MO.
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