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Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School

Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School (Missouri) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,675,857 to it, the largest being MICHAEL & QUIRSIS RINEY FAMILY FNDN ($4,573,543). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$79M
Funders on record
87
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
$285M
63/87 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School does

Mission

Founded in 1859, MICDS is a nonprofit, independent, preparatory school offering non-sectarian education to qualified students regardless of national origin, race or religion. MICDS serves students for grades Junior Kindergarten through 12.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Elementary & Secondary Education: Private independent college preparatory school providing an enriched academically intensive program for 1240 students in grades Junior Kindergarten through 12.

    $43,141,261 spentof which $7,068,261 as grants$78,648,624 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $43,141,261.

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 ($42M) Expenses 100 ($43M) Net assets 100 ($188M)2018 Revenue 101 ($43M) Expenses 103 ($44M) Net assets 104 ($195M)2019 Revenue 95 ($40M) Expenses 104 ($45M) Net assets 103 ($193M)2020 Revenue 98 ($41M) Expenses 100 ($43M) Net assets 103 ($193M)2021 Revenue 96 ($41M) Expenses 105 ($45M) Net assets 123 ($231M)2022 Revenue 101 ($43M) Expenses 107 ($46M) Net assets 106 ($200M)2023 Revenue 109 ($46M) Expenses 113 ($49M) Net assets 111 ($208M)2024 Revenue 163 ($69M) Expenses 120 ($51M) Net assets 128 ($241M)2025 Revenue 185 ($79M) Expenses 123 ($53M) Net assets 152 ($285M)
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Revenue (185)Expenses (123)Net assets (152)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 2024 to 2025, from $254M to $300M (+18%).

$222M
$215M
$209M
$204M
$240M
$208M
$216M
$254M
$300M
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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

40% of Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$441k
’17
−$1.2M
’18
−$4.4M
’19
−$1.5M
’20
−$4.5M
’21
−$3.1M
’22
−$2.4M
’23
$18M
’24
$26M
’25
8.5
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

Jason Brauer

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed353538383636333029
Joined·+10+11+8+4+7+5+6+8
No longer listed·108867899
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 37 funders, grant income fell $3.2M → $2.8M.

16 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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

Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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

53% 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 Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School.

16%
largest funder
43%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 28% — 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 Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

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ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
RI
CO
MO
VA
DE
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

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

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.1M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School

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

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • MICDS Scholarship Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School?
Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School (Missouri) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,675,857 to it, the largest being MICHAEL & QUIRSIS RINEY FAMILY FNDN ($4,573,543). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School have?
IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $28,675,857 in grants to Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School?
MICHAEL & QUIRSIS RINEY FAMILY FNDN is the largest funder on record, with $4,573,543 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School 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 87 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