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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$3.4MEducation$1.7MEmployment$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.0MCrime & Legal$497kFood & Nutrition$476kYouth Development$427kHuman Services$338kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 28 grants below total $1,192,554, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,640,770 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $448,216 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $394k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $445k
  • $250k+1 grant · $330k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS$25,000
ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$25,000
LOVETHELOU$25,000
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE FOUNDATION$25,000
SEED ST LOUIS$25,000
EAST WEST GATEWAY COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS$25,000
GLOBAL CENTER FOR CYBERSECURITY$25,000
NPOWER$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $9k → 16%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $5k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $6k → 11%EYETHRIVE: $29k → 11%EYETHRIVE: $25k → 11%EYETHRIVE: $10k → 11%COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%BUILDING ON DIRECTION: $10k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUE OF STL: $20k → 21%RAINBOW VILLAGE: $5k → 11%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $25k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $25k → 21%FERGUSON YOUTH INITATIVE: $9k → 11%FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 21%MIGRANT AND IMMIGRATION COMM ACTION PROJECT: $8k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $10k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE: $6k → 21%INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC: $8k → 11%URBAN SPROUTS: $6k → 11%BUILD MISSOURI HEALTH: $10k → 21%YMCA: $11k → 21%HEAT UP ST LOUIS: $10k → 21%WESLEY HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.9M · 56 repeat orgs$823k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
66

Total granted

$8.9M
$778k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+21%

Still filing today

82%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +184%
  • KS
    KIPP ST LOUIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $643k · revenue +133%
  • GS
    GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +899%

Funded once

  • CP
    CIVIC PROGRESS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +21%
  • SB
    SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +422%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH COMMISSION OF MISSOURI
    one grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue -94%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Teach St Louis

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…

Education
2
St Louis Workers Education Society

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…

Human Services
3
Edhub Stl

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.

Education
4
Community Builders Network of Metro St Louis

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…

Community Improvement
5
Conflict Resolution Center St Louis City

Conflict Resolution Center St. Louis empowers people to resolve conflict through accessible mediation, coaching, and education.

Human Services
6
Urban Harvest Stl

Urban Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems.

Food & Nutrition
7
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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8
St Louis Tax Assistance Progr
Human Services
9
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

—
10
Small Business Empowerment Fund Cdfi

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,…

Community Improvement
11
Forward Through Ferguson

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…

Civil Rights
12
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections to Success; 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.
04the grantee network

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
107/114
Grantees still filing
71/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $2,100,235 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUISKIPP ST LOUIS: $643,363 · OtherKIPP ST LOUISPAS Association: $400,000 · OtherPAS AssociationLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $182,850 · Other+63 more: $2,021,218 · Other+63 moreGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $525,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER ST LOUIS I…BETTER FAMILY LIFE INC: $298,900 · Community ImprovementBETTER FAMILY LIFE…NPOWER INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementNPOWER INCHISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF METRO ST LOUIS: $202,800 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC CHAMBER O…ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ST LOUIS: $185,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN AMERICAN CHA…SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $55,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $76,300 · Community ImprovementTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION: $250,000 · EducationTHE OPPORTUN…ST LOIUS CIVIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $229,330 · EducationST LOIUS CIV…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,600 · EducationWASHINGTON U…Global Center for Cybersecurity at Cortex: $100,000 · EducationGlobal Cente…PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $85,000 · EducationPROGRESS IN …KWAME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $72,500 · EducationKWAME CHARIT…ST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $72,400 · EducationST LOUIS AME…THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $60,000 · Education+7 more: $120,250 · Education+7 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $653,700 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $257,000 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS CO…ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,500 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS PU…+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $60,300 · Youth DevelopmentKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentSt Louis Bicycle Works Inc: $55,400 · Youth DevelopmentSTL YOUTH JOBS: $44,250 · Youth DevelopmentJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION: $35,100 · Youth DevelopmentA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $25,250 · Youth Development+3 more: $25,690 · Youth DevelopmentEYE THRIVE: $63,500 · Human ServicesUNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $60,250 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,500 · Human ServicesBUILD MISSOURI HEALTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEAT UP ST LOUIS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $9,950 · Human Services+12 more: $84,300 · Human ServicesSt Louis Police Foundation: $255,700 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$5,347,666Community Improvement$1,593,000Education$1,140,080Philanthropy$1,011,200Youth Development$305,990Human Services$293,500Public Safety & Disaster$255,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $2,100,235 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $653,700 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS: $643,363 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetPAS Association: $400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBETTER FAMILY LIFE INC: $298,900 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $257,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $255,700 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION: $250,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetNPOWER INC: $250,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetST LOIUS CIVIC PRIDE FOUNDATION: $229,330 over 5y, 73% of budgetHISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF METRO ST LOUIS: $202,800 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF ST LOUIS: $185,000 over 9y, 86% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNCIL SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS: $182,850 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $163,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHAWTHORN FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: $145,404 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetMISSOURI CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $110,454 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetGlobal Center for Cybersecurity at Cortex: $100,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKWAME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $72,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetST LOUIS AMERICAN FOUNDATION: $72,400 over 4y, 11% of budgetSEED ST LOUIS: $64,570 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetEYE THRIVE: $63,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $60,300 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $60,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCIVIC PROGRESS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCyberUp: $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSt Louis Bicycle Works Inc: $55,400 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetSMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $55,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION: $52,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST MARTIN'S CHILD CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANIM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTL YOUTH JOBS: $44,250 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COMMISSION OF MISSOURI: $42,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION: $35,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLOVE THE LOU: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $32,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $32,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND: $25,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
  • 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 THE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHADS COALITION FOR MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds THE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
  • Who funds CIVIC PROGRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds CyberUp ↗
  • Who funds St Louis Bicycle Works Inc ↗
  • Who funds SMALL BUSINESS EMPOWERMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL CHAMBER & GROWTH ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…World Wide Technology…Employees Community F…Trio Foundation of St…Washington UniversityYouthbridge Community…Brown Dana Charitable…Norman J Stupp Founda…Centene Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO110× affinity65 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Regional Business Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regional Business Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • African Peoples Education and Defen: 66% of income from government
  • Humanim Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home