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FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER

FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,986 to it, the largest being CENTENE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$242k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$461k
Net assets
$186k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Friends of St Louis University Liver Center does

Mission

Grants for research and educational programs in support of liver disease research and education of liver disease at the st louis university liver center.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. $112,000 grant to slu liver center and $50 other donation

    $280,490 spentof which $112,050 as grants$241,590 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $280,490 spentof which $112,050 as grants$241,590 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $280,490. The per-program figures do not add up to the total the return states; both are shown as filed.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($662k) Expenses 100 ($696k) Net assets 100 ($161k)2018 Revenue 79 ($525k) Expenses 54 ($379k) Net assets 192 ($308k)2019 Revenue 91 ($602k) Expenses 102 ($711k) Net assets 124 ($200k)2020 Revenue 64 ($421k) Expenses 64 ($443k) Net assets 111 ($178k)2021 Revenue 86 ($568k) Expenses 72 ($498k) Net assets 154 ($248k)2022 Revenue 57 ($377k) Expenses 44 ($304k) Net assets 199 ($320k)2023 Revenue 40 ($268k) Expenses 34 ($236k) Net assets 219 ($352k)2024 Revenue 40 ($265k) Expenses 56 ($389k) Net assets 142 ($228k)2025 Revenue 36 ($242k) Expenses 40 ($280k) Net assets 116 ($186k)
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Revenue (36)Expenses (40)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $611k to $308k (−50%).

$611k
$308k
$200k
$344k
$248k
$320k
$358k
$228k
$186k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

114% of FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
$147k
’18
−$109k
’19
−$22k
’20
$70k
’21
$73k
’22
$31k
’23
−$124k
’24
−$39k
’25
7.8
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.

Board chair

John Lake

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed141111977885
Joined·+2+3+3+0+3+3+2+0
No longer listed·53523223
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $19k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER’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.

How concentrated its funding is

FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

34% 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 FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER.

65%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 81% · 2020 99% · 2021 79% · 2022 93% · 2023 69% — 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

17% of FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

100% of FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

IL
MO
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−16% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER?
FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER (Missouri) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $460,986 to it, the largest being CENTENE FOUNDATION ($300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $460,986 in grants to FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER?
CENTENE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY LIVER CENTER 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 9 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