Missouri · Nonprofit
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,287 to it, the largest being GATEWAY FOUNDATION ($160,112). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $607k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $474k
- Net assets
- $642k
What St Louis County Parks Foundation does
Mission
As the official nonprofit partner of the st. Louis county parks department, the st. Louis county parks foundation works to increase public appreciation, stewardship, and use of county parks. The foundation envisions a future in which every person in st. Louis county has access to vibrant, welcoming, and well-cared-for parks that strengthen communities, improve health, connect people with nature, and preserve our region's shared heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Capital improvement projects are the primary purpose of the st. Louis county parks foundation. The foundation raises and stewards private, public, and philanthropic support to care for, restore, activate, and enhance st. Louis county parks, creating programmatic impact in the following funding priority areas: (1) park equity - st. Louis county parks are public assets that should be accessible, welcoming, and beneficial to communities across the region. The foundation supports park improvements in high-need areas to expand access to quality green space, recreation, and community gathering places. In 2025, this priority included support for the revitalization of kinloch park, a major investment in a historically significant community park. (2) recreation - parks provide places for residents to gather, play, learn, and connect with one another. The foundation supports improvements that enhance recreational opportunities and create destinations for families, children, and visitors throughout the county park system. In 2025, this included support for the new outdoor classroom at the queeny park children's garden club and the construction of the abe phillips trail at greensfelder park.…
$715,501 spentof which $274,586 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $715,501.
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 $235k to $655k (+179%).
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: 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $156k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS 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
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2019 40% · 2020 92% · 2021 96% · 2022 37% · 2023 64% — 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
22% of ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
63% of ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS 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. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS 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 ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION?
- ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,287 to it, the largest being GATEWAY FOUNDATION ($160,112). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $474,287 in grants to ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION?
- GATEWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $160,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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