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SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN

SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $352,208 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($103,283). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$379k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$352k
Net assets
$69k
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Suburban Journals Old Newsboy's Fund for Children does

Mission

To ensure that children who are at risk in our community, because of abuse or poverty, receive adequate food, shelter, clothing, medical care and are provided equal opportunity for social development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Distribution of collected funds to childrens' agencies in the st. Louis region.

    $451,068 spentof which $280,048 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $451,068.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($411k) Expenses 100 ($424k) Net assets 100 ($179k)2021 Revenue 49 ($201k) Expenses 38 ($161k) Net assets 122 ($219k)2022 Revenue 73 ($302k) Expenses 69 ($291k) Net assets 38 ($67k)2023 Revenue 86 ($352k) Expenses 81 ($345k) Net assets 41 ($74k)2024 Revenue 133 ($546k) Expenses 96 ($405k) Net assets 120 ($215k)2025 Revenue 92 ($379k) Expenses 124 ($524k) Net assets 39 ($69k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (92)Expenses (124)Net assets (39)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $219k to $67k (−69%).

$179k
$219k
$67k
$74k
$215k
$69k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’20
$40k
’21
$11k
’22
$7k
’23
$141k
’24
−$145k
’25
1.6
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.

Chief executive

Mary Ann Wagner

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed121216161819
Joined·+0+8+0+3+2
No longer listed·04011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $57k.

6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN’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

SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

98% 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 SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN.

29%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 53% · 2022 41% · 2023 36% — 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

33% of SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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 SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $36k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Missouri funders.

NY
MO

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $316k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Organizations like SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN

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

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 4%Fundraising 10%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN?
SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $352,208 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($103,283). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $352,208 in grants to SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $103,283 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUBURBAN JOURNALS OLD NEWSBOY'S FUND FOR CHILDREN 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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