Missouri · Nonprofit
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,080,213 to it, the largest being THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($24,560,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $33M
What Great Rivers Greenway Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is a public benefit corporation which supports and directly benefits great rivers greenway (grg) district projects within grg's jurisdictional boundaries and performs acts which establish, enhance, maintain, and sustain the greenways of the st. Louis metro region and in greenways related projects in the st. Louis metro region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Greenway improvement projects for the benefit of the grg district.
$458,932 spentof which $458,932 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $458,932.
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 $7.0M to $16M (+127%).
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.
83% of GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
George Love
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $3.7M → $5.4M.
10 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION’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
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2019 81% · 2020 90% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 47% — 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
53% of GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
99% of GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Metropolitan Park and Recreation District (Great Rivers Greenway District) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION: 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 GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION?
- GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,080,213 to it, the largest being THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION ($24,560,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $41,080,213 in grants to GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION?
- THE CRAWFORD TAYLOR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $24,560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY 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.
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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing