Fair St Louis Foundation

Analysis

Fair St Louis Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover recreation and sports, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending November 2023, Fair St Louis Foundation reported income of $473k and spending of $603k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from November 2019 to November 2023, income fell from $2.7m to $473k (-82%), an average of -35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to November 2023, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 30,892 United States charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Fair St Louis Foundation sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Evans Memorial Camp Inc ($473k), Luke 5 Adventures Inc ($473k) and Fields of Dreams Uganda Inc ($473k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending November 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% and program service revenue 4.1% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $50k. At year end it held assets of $1.9m against liabilities of $73k, net assets of $1.9m. It reported 1 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.