St Louis Cardinals Community Fund

Analysis

St Louis Cardinals Community Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1997, 29 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 Cardinals Community Fund reported income of $1.8m and spending of $1.8m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.3m to $1.8m (-23%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 36%. Over the whole period it spent 109% 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 Cardinals Community Fund sits at the 86th percentile: it is larger than about 86% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mesa United Way Inc ($1.8m), Easterseals Foundation of Central Illinois ($1.8m) and United Way of Horry County Inc ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 61% of the total. At year end it held assets of $5.7m against liabilities of $381k, net assets of $5.3m.