Missouri · Nonprofit
ACTION ST LOUIS
ACTION ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,648,811 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($800,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Action St Louis does
Mission
Action st. Louis is a grassroots organization that builds campaignsthat leverage organizing, advocacy and communications to transform thest. Louis region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advocacy - action st. Louis works to elevate the voices of community members who have been impacted by issues of criminal justice and housing. Through campaigns, we work with residents of st. Louis to share their experiences and build a collective analysis on how to improve our communities. This work includes hosting events, community outreach and digital engagement to the broader public.
$2,744,283 spentof which $2,200,000 as grants72% of program spendingDemocracy and voter education action st. Louis routinely engages the general public through field and digital mediums to educate them on upcoming elections. Action also works to ensure tools of democracy are accessible to all communities by confronting barriers.
$982,377 spent26% of program spendingTraining and leadership development action st. Louis recruits and trains community members on organizing fundamentals, civic infrastructure and history to develop their capacity to champion issues that directly affect their families and communities.
$103,860 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,830,520.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.2M to $2.2M (−32%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ACTION ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kayla Reed
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $60k → $846k.
15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ACTION ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACTION ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACTION ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 66% · 2022 20% · 2023 24% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ACTION ST LOUIS draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ACTION ST LOUIS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ACTION ST LOUIS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION ST LOUIS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION ST LOUIS?
- ACTION ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,648,811 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($800,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,648,811 in grants to ACTION ST LOUIS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION ST LOUIS?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 37 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing