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BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC

BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BETTER BUSINESS BUREAUS INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$5.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$3.6M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Better Business Bureau of Greater St Louis Inc does

Mission

To be the leader in advancing marketplace trust by setting standards for marketplace trust, encouraging and supporting best practices by engaging with and educating consumers and businesses, celebrating marketplace role models, calling out and addressing substandard marketplace behavior and creating a community of trustworthy businesses and charities.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing consumer protection through educational prepurchase buying tips and new warnings; dispute resolution services; charity and business review and monitoring advertisements for truth and accuracy.

    $5,510,773 spent$5,499,755 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,510,773.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 107 ($4.8M) Expenses 110 ($4.6M) Net assets 108 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 116 ($5.2M) Expenses 115 ($4.8M) Net assets 123 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 116 ($5.2M) Expenses 116 ($4.9M) Net assets 136 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 115 ($5.1M) Expenses 117 ($4.9M) Net assets 146 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 127 ($5.7M) Expenses 130 ($5.5M) Net assets 155 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 125 ($5.6M) Expenses 130 ($5.5M) Net assets 159 ($3.5M)2024 Revenue 132 ($5.9M) Expenses 139 ($5.8M) Net assets 162 ($3.6M)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (139)Net assets (162)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.6M to $4.3M (+20%).

$2.6M
$2.8M
$3.1M
$3.6M
$4.3M
$4.3M
$4.2M
$4.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 0% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$252k
’17
$172k
’18
$347k
’19
$288k
’20
$209k
’21
$207k
’22
$85k
’23
$33k
’24
1.7
months of
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

Michelle L Corey

President & CEO

Board chair

Todd Smith

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2829292830323333
Joined·+6+11+4+7+5+10+2
No longer listed·51155392
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 49%Fundraising 0%

Governance

28
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Better Business Bureau of Greater St Louis Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: 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 BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC?
BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BETTER BUSINESS BUREAUS INC ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC.
Who is the largest funder of BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC?
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BETTER BUSINESS BUREAUS INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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