Missouri · Nonprofit
GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION
GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,913,718 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($38,738,725). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $115M
What Gateway Arch Park Foundation does
Mission
See schedule o.the foundation's mission is to ensure the gateway arch, its grounds, neighboring public space and attractions will be a vital, welcoming, well supported resource for the community and nation for generations to come.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o.in 2024, Gateway Arch Park Foundation continued its efforts in conservation, preservation, education, and community programs at gateway arch national park. Highlights include:conservation: through its co-managed volunteer program with the national park service, foundation volunteers removed more than 5,100 pounds of trash from entering the mississippi river during three riverfront cleanups, two of which occur bi-annually. In 2024, the foundation also introduced new drop-in days of service, a new ecological monitor position that document the park's wildlife, and bioblitz events.preservation: together with nps, the foundation continued progress on the renovations of the old courthouse, which will feature all-new exhibit galleries, structural updates, new heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems, renovated ceilings and flooring, a new fire suppression system, an accessible elevator, and general remediation and restoration. The foundation also added new power sources to the north gateway of gateway arch national park to better support concerts and festivals in the 7.5-acre outdoor event space. Foundation volunteers also worked to digitize 15 years of…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $74M to $98M (+32%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 21% · 2023 2% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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 9 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $612k → $1.6M.
12 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $552k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Louis Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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
GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 70% · 2019 33% · 2020 70% · 2021 61% · 2022 97% · 2023 68% — 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
57% of GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
86% of GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION'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 $6.7M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gateway Reimagined LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION?
- GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,913,718 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($38,738,725). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $45,913,718 in grants to GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $38,738,725 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 70 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