Missouri · Nonprofit
ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,065,076 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($13,028,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Entrepreneur Startup Business Development Corporation does
Mission
Arch grants advances economic development and community revitalization by providing equity-free grants of up to $100,000 and dynamic wraparound support to startup entrepreneurs willing to headquarter their businesses in st. Louis. Arch grants conducts a rigorously competitive annual startup competition to retain and attract the best innovators to st. Louis. This program is an aggressive effort to increase entrepreneurial activity in st. Louis to seed the next generation of employers, civic leaders, and philanthropists in st. Louis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Grant program - fulfilling the mission of arch grants through the provision of financial and other assistance through the primary means of competitive grant programs, the purposes of which are to compensate for the lack of access to adequate sources of capital, to develop entrepreneurs in startup businesses in the city of st. Louis, create jobs, combat blight, and create community development. During 2024, 19 new grants were awarded inclusive of 6 relocation grants through the annual startup competition (19 full $75,000 awards and 6 relocation grants of $25,000), in addition to 3 follow-on grants to previously funded companies through a new growth grants program (3 full $100,000 awards). (see schedule o)as of december 31, 2024, arch grants has awarded $18.7 million in grants to 272 companies. Since the launch in 2012, several thousand applications have been received from around the world, including applications from 49 states and 93 countries.
$2,848,274 spentof which $1,870,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,848,274.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.6M to $25M (+197%).
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: 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Gabriel Angieri
Executive director
Board chair
Jerry Schlichter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $462k → $1.3M.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 33% · 2019 47% · 2020 90% · 2021 34% · 2022 21% · 2023 31% — 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
38% of ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
71% of ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION'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 $6.1M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record.
- Department of Commerce$750k
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 ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,065,076 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($13,028,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $21,065,076 in grants to ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,028,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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