Missouri · Nonprofit
BELIEVE SCHOOLS
BELIEVE SCHOOLS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being First Bank Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Believe Schools does
Mission
To develop students into leaders through a community that fosters their agency, autonomy, and acceleration - providing a foundation for future independence and success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Believe Schools is a public college and career preparatory high school dedicated to the achievement of students in the st. Louis area. The school will ensure all students graduate with an associate's degree or a career certification in a high-demand, skilled career alongside their high school diploma. This will be achieved through meaningful and purposeful community partnerships that will help elevate the student and the st. Louis community.
$2,284,199 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,284,199.
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 $439k to $4.0M (+814%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 35% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BELIEVE SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BELIEVE SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BELIEVE SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BELIEVE SCHOOLS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BELIEVE SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $296k on record.
- Department of Education$296k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BELIEVE SCHOOLS
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BELIEVE SCHOOLS: 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 BELIEVE SCHOOLS?
- BELIEVE SCHOOLS (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being First Bank Foundation ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELIEVE SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to BELIEVE SCHOOLS.
- Who is the largest funder of BELIEVE SCHOOLS?
- First Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELIEVE SCHOOLS 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 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing