Missouri · Nonprofit
THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (Missouri) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,159,879 to it, the largest being DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION ($750,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $989k
What The St Louis Bereavement Center for Young People does
Mission
To provide comprehensive support services to children, teens, and their families who grieve a death.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Camp courage is a four night/five day overnight camp for grieving kids ages 6 - 11 years. Camp courage teens is a four night/five day overnight camp for grieving teens ages 12 - 18. These two camp experiences provide an opportunity for bereaved children and teens to meet each other, thus decreasing their sense of isolation, increasing their sense of normalcy, improving their coping skills, empowering them to try new things, enhancing their self esteem, returniong joy to their heart, and stimulating a (re)discovering of hope for their future. Camp courage serves 64 unique children, while camp courage teens served 27 for a total of 91. 80 unique adults attended closing ceremonies. Altogether, 171 kids and adults were served at our two grief camps.
$240,451 spent$126,432 earned by the program37% of program spendingFamily support groups exist to unite grieving families in a safe, comfortable, non-judgmental environment, whereby their sense of isolation is decreased, their sense of normalcy is increased, their coping skills are improved, they feel more capable and empowered to manage their grief, they are more educated about the grief process, adults are more confident supporting the children in their care and together, they (re)discover hope for their future. In 2024, there were six sets of family support groups serving 130 families consisting of 204 kids, ages 3-18, and 142 adults, for a total of 346 participants.
$138,206 spent$90,887 earned by the program21% of program spendingHorizons provides home-based grief support to families who are anticipating a death. Staff or volunteers who are trained in the grief process, assist famiies by providing an outlet for emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual pain as they face the death of someone significant. A sample of the tools used to faciitate this work includes clay work, art, journaling, books, imaginative play, legacy work, and adaptive games. In 2024, 51 unique households were served, consisting of 69 adults and 74 children, for a total of 143.
$67,049 spent$19,287 earned by the program10% of program spendingAdditional small programs that helped to provide comprehensive support services to grieving families.
$206,212 spent32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $651,918.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $738k to $1.0M (+36%).
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: 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Rebecca Byrne
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income rose $195k → $308k.
13 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 55% · 2021 49% · 2022 35% · 2023 32% — 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
41% of THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $848k 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.
Against its field
THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE?
- THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE (Missouri) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,159,879 to it, the largest being DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION ($750,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,159,879 in grants to THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE?
- DONATE LIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $750,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ST LOUIS BEREAVEMENT CENTER FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 36 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