Missouri · Nonprofit
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,044,388 to it, the largest being PERSHING CHARITABLE TRUST ($879,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Greater St Louis Inc Foundation does
Mission
The corporation is organized and shall at all times be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purpose of, within the meaning of code section 509(a)(3), greater st. Louis, inc. (the "supported organization"); provided, however, that the supported organization remains recognized and described in section 509(a)(2), if it were an organization described in section 501(c)(3).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Greater st. Louis, inc. Foundation is a type 1 supporting entity to greater st. Louis, inc. Greater st. Louis, inc. Foundation provides funding for eligible programs and activities carried out by greater st. Louis, inc., such as the fellows experience, promoting the region's global competitiveness, and enhancing the vibrancy and safety of downtown st. Louis. The supported organization, greater st. Louis, inc., carried out multiple initiatives in 2024 in furtherance of eligible activities. Including: graduating 100+ rising executives from the fellows experience; scaling up the supplystl initiative to support the growth of diverse-owned businesses; marketing and promoting the economic vibrancy of downtown st. Louis; and conducting street festivals and activities in downtown.
$7,166,132 spentof which $7,166,132 as grants$501,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,166,132.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $16M (+46%).
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.
89% of GREATER ST LOUIS INC 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. 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.
Board chair
Don Lents
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.8M.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $3.2M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Louis Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION’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
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 47% · 2023 33% — 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
20% of GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
90% of GREATER ST LOUIS INC 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. $1.1M 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
GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves 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
Government funding GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.3M
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 GREATER ST LOUIS INC 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Greater St Louis Inc · exempt
- Downtown St Louis Foundation Inc · exempt
- Civic Progress Inc · exempt
- 21st Century St Louis PAC Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER ST LOUIS INC 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 GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION?
- GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,044,388 to it, the largest being PERSHING CHARITABLE TRUST ($879,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $5,044,388 in grants to GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION?
- PERSHING CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $879,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER ST LOUIS INC 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 20 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