Missouri · Nonprofit
GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC
GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,170,807 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,779,079). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Gene Slay's Boys' Club of St Louis Inc does
Mission
The mission of gene slay's boys' club of st. Louis, inc. Is to empower girls and boys in the st. Louis metropolitan area, especially those who need us most, to realize their physical, intellectual, and emotional potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy lifestyles - to delineate from school and show members that academics have an important bearing on all aspects of life. Gsgbc combines academic components with its full healthy lifestyles program that include aquatics, athletics & recreation, character & citizenship and healthy lifestyles (encompass physical and nutritional health, social skills development and risky behavior avoidance). All youth recreation and athletic programs are designed to encourage physical growth and development of fundamental skills and a basic knowledge of the rules of the games, as well as practice, teamwork, and healthy sportsmanship attitudes; swimming lessons are mandatory during the summer for all participants. Monday through friday, youth have approximately one hour of either free-play or organized recreation or a combination of both. Youth are provided with supervised, unstructured recreational time in the gym and on the fields of the club. During this time, members can get involved in pick-up basketball, kickball or dodge ball games, or simply shoot a basketball. Older youth also have the option to workout in the supervised weight room. Youth have the opportunity to participate on…
$965,345 spent52% of program spendingExtended learning - gene slay's girls & boys club's program offers a well-rounded curriculum in after-school and summer camp programming that allows members to strengthen, sustain, and acquire academic skills that help close the learning gap experienced by 70% of urban youth in the city of st. Louis that gsgbc serves. Programs feature a variety of academic support and assistance through daily homework, educational enrichment, and mad math monday's. During summer camp all youth participate in "learning loss" prevention workshops in reading, math, and science. 1st and 2nd-grade members take part in a year-long innovative art program that weaves literacy and fine motor skill development in an alternative learning environment. More than 95% of youth progressed to the next grade each year! 80% of youth sustained or gained in reading and math in summer workshops!literacy is at the heart of all extended learning programs here at gsgbc. We know from years of educational research data, youth that read on grade-level by the end of 3rd grade will graduate from high school at a 90% rate; increasing the odds of student matriculating to post-secondary education. To address this key benchmark,…
$790,233 spent42% of program spendingCollege & career readiness - the college & career readiness program at gsgbc prepares young teens for the experiences and obstacles that lie ahead of them as they advance through school, as well as life. Gsgbc introduces them to knowledge about college/universities, including the application and fafsa processes. Gsgbc helps them research different colleges/universities. The youth learn what tuition is, and the different ways they can pay for college. The teens discuss concerns and issues that they feel are affecting them in their everyday life. In college readiness, the discussions circle around serious subjects confronting urban teens, such as drugs, gangs, negative attitudes, academics, sports, money management, etc. Are often discussed in college readiness. College readiness relates every subject back to school and society.
$109,241 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,864,819.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.5M to $8.4M (+29%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 10% · 2020 11% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 17% · 2024 31% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Robert Puricelli
Executive director
Board chair
Jill Slay Garlich
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $339k → $790k.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 30 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
GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 51% · 2019 44% · 2020 47% · 2021 34% · 2022 37% · 2023 29% — 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
62% of GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
97% of GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $203k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC?
- GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,170,807 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($1,779,079). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $5,170,807 in grants to GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,779,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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