St Louis Community Foundation Incorporated

Analysis

St Louis Community Foundation Incorporated is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, St Louis Community Foundation Incorporated reported income of $90.3m and spending of $85.3m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $92.8m to $90.3m (-2.7%), an average of -0.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, St Louis Community Foundation Incorporated sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 98th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Crosland Foundation ($90.0m), Bradley Impact Fund Inc ($90.7m) and J Howard Pew Freedom TR ($89.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% and program service revenue 1.2% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $421.2m against liabilities of $23.8m, net assets of $397.4m. It reported 38 employees.