Missouri · Nonprofit
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016,608 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($185,060). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Assistance League of St Louis does
Mission
The organization volunteers invest in student success and support families in crisis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation school bell - program which provides new uniforms, coats, hygiene kits and year round access to essentials through assistance league's closets to elementary school children in the st. Louis area from underprivileged families. Clothing and other basic needs were distributed to 44 schools across 5 districts and 36 closets at schools were supported.
$644,740 spent48% of program spendingAssistance league outreach - collaborating with 24 schools and 19 agencies, outreach supported the urgent needs of 2,297 people in crisis. This year, they encountered a surge in bed requests and provided 200 beds, packaged with new pillows, sheets and bedding.
$295,549 spent22% of program spendingSteps to success provides new athletic shoes to children in need (grades k5) attending st. Louis, mo area schools. Delivered new athletic shoes and socks to 3,454 students in 41 schools.
$180,899 spent13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$234,073 spent17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,355,261.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $4.4M to $5.2M (+16%).
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.
91% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $41k → $232k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 56% · 2019 58% · 2020 45% · 2021 25% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $421k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $596k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS?
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,016,608 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($185,060). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $1,016,608 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $185,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 34 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