World Affairs Council of St Louis

Analysis

World Affairs Council of St Louis is a registered charity in United States, based in Saint Louis, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1950, 76 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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 June 2023, World Affairs Council of St Louis reported income of $162k and spending of $150k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $255k to $162k (-36%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income dropped by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, World Affairs Council of St Louis sits at the 46th percentile: it is larger than about 46% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 49th percentile, and in the 46th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Caring & Sharing International ($162k), Sonia Shah Organization ($162k) and Waterhope ($162k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 38% and program service revenue 61% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $77k. At year end it held assets of $68k against liabilities of $7,085, net assets of $61k.