Missouri · Nonprofit
REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL
REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,840,348 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK ($1,302,453). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Regional Business Council does
Mission
To unite and engage members to act on high-impact business, civic and philanthropic affairs for the betterment of the st. Louis region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Crime & public safety: rbc works closely with public safety officials and community partners to reduce crime, improve safety and provide needed support and improvement to law enforcement and neighborhood stabilization. - rbc donated $50,000 to the st. Louis police foundation for the purpose of supporting the creation of a childcare facility for police personnel in the st. Louis county police department with hours that are more conducive to law enforcement schedules. The rbc has committed $50,000 annually for three years. These efforts play a crucial role in recruiting and retaining st. Louis county police officers with young families.(continued on schedule o) - in march 2025, rbc in collaboration with the urban league led a clean-up of dumping in the city of kinloch. A total of 67 trucks transported 234 loads full of 1,400 tons of debris to local landfills. Key partners included fred weber, paric, ameren, spire, keeley, and missouri american water (maw) providing the equipment, staging and manpower for the cleanup. We also gathered volunteers to install a total of 40 doorbell cameras in kinloch and cahokia heights, illinois. - in 2025, rbc gave $25,000 to east-west gateway council…
$681,587 spentof which $463,489 as grants24% of program spendingGiving back: rbc's giving back initiative's focus is to improve the quality of life in the region by bridging corporate and nonprofit communities. - st. Louis social venture partners (svp) directly invested $95,000 into five nonprofits. They were able to apply the funding towards projects essential to building capacity and functionality in their organizations such as which helped our investees acquire marketing services, strategic planning consultants, board development retreats, and professional development for staff.(continued on schedule o) - rbc's it's our region fund grant committee, consisting of leadership 100 members, allocated $100,000 to 24 nonprofit organizations in the st. Louis region, including st. Clair and madison county, illinois. The grants fund small capital projects that often otherwise may go unfunded. - the rbc united way committee encouraged rbc member companies to contribute to the 2025 united way of greater st. Louis campaign. Their work contributed to member companies raising over $21m for the united way in 2025. These contributions help the united way address the st. Louis region's needs and ensure our residents meet their basic needs of food, shelter,…
$802,057 spentof which $430,805 as grants28% of program spendingSkilled workforce: rbc's skilled workforce initiative's focus is to build a more informed, connected and reliable pipeline of skilled workforce talent in rbc's five priority industries: construction, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and first responders. - rbc successfully led the first in a series of industry convenings that help connect the fragmented workforce development landscape. The first convening was for the construction and advanced manufacturing industries, including participation from rbc member companies, other business and nonprofit partners, 15+ schools, and 200+ attendees at ranken technical college.(continued on schedule o) - stl.works helped organize and provide keynotes at over 6 education and workforce conferences to 1000+ professionals via the stl.works champion: saint louis university (200+ attendees), umsl (300+ attendees), washington univ. (100+ attendees), webster university (100+ attendees), and more. - rbc also provided $10,000 in support of missouri chamber of commerce's show-me careers, which provided direct insight into in-demand occupations to key educators, counselors, and administrators throughout the region in an immersive summer externship…
$740,236 spentof which $397,599 as grants26% of program spendingK-12 education: rbc's k-12 education initiative's focus is to invest in the economic future of our region by advancing opportunities for learning and academic excellence, especially for schools in under-resourced areas. - the rbc sent a letter to the st. Louis public school (slps) board calling slps board of education to develop and adopt in the next 60 days a detailed and sound plan to remedy the findings of a 2025 state audit and to put the district on a clear path to financial solvency. It encouraged the district to engage third party experts and top-notch educational consultants to get to proven solutions more quickly than trying to do it alone. The rbc offered its support. - the rbc supported the st. Louis public school foundation through a gift of $50,000 with the goal of providing students with home library kits to combat the literacy crisis outside of school. Approximately 1,200 students received library kits during the introductory cycle. - dr. Karla eslinger, commissioner of missouri department of elementary and secondary education, attended one rbc board meeting and two k-12 education committee meetings, including voicing her support for the collaboration between the…
$391,028 spentof which $210,031 as grants14% of program spendingPublic policy: rbc's public policy committee's focus is to educate and advance public policies that directly support rbc's strategic priorities in crime and public safety, workforce and talent development, k-12 education, regional collaboration. - the rbc collaborated with the opportunity trust and greater st. Louis inc. To hold the third annual st. Louis day with 22 missouri state legislators and 93 business leaders in attendance, to hear from 18 speakers on 5 topics, including public safety, airport development, workforce development, and education. Governor of missouri mike kehoe addressed the participants over lunch. - the rbc hosted an educational event and fireside chat with greater st. Louis inc. Featuring u.s. Senator eric schmitt who discussed how and why the st. Louis region could be become an emerging defense hub in the country, bringing jobs and economic prosperity to the r region. One hundred community partners and business leaders attended the event, including 35 rbc members. - the rbc invited the newly elected mayor of st. Louis cara spencer to speak to the rbc board. She spoke about her administration's priorities for the city. Post the may 16th tornado, rbc…
$258,499 spentof which $138,846 as grants9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,873,407.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.9M to $4.1M (−18%).
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.
96% of REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Karen Branding
President and CEO
Board chair
Alaina Macia
Director / chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $42k → $1.7M.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $808k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater St Louis Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL’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
REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 65% · 2019 39% · 2020 31% · 2021 55% · 2022 29% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
100% of REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $692k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL: 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 REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL?
- REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL (Missouri) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,840,348 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK ($1,302,453). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,840,348 in grants to REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL?
- COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK is the largest funder on record, with $1,302,453 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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