Rga Foundation
Chesterfield, MO · EIN 81-3433180. Reported 33 grants totalling $2,169,547 to 28 organizations across tax years 2023-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Rga Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $575,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yourcause Holdings Blackbaud Giving Fund | Charleston, SC | $719,757 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Longer Life Foundation | St Louis, MO | $575,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Red Cross St Louis Area | Medford, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Focus St Louis | St Louis, MO | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Operation Food Search Inc | St Louis, MO | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Parents As Teachers National Center Inc | Creve Coeur, MO | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Actuarial Foundation | Schaumburg, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Southfield, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Region YMCA | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis | Chesterfield, MO | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Provident Inc | St Louis, MO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ssm Health Foundation | St Louis, MO | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Barnesjewish Hospital | St Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Memory Care Home Solutions | St Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Greater St Louis | St Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Launchcode Foundation | St Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Louis Community College Foundation | Bridgeton, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Foundation for Barnes-Jewish Hospital | St Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| U of Ca Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Research and Education | St Louis, MO | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Council for Economic Education | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital Foundation | St Louis, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Curators of U of Mo St Louis | Columbia, MO | $15,790 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Missouri Colleges Fund Inc | Jefferson City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Variety the Childrens Charity St Louis | St Louis, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc | St Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oasis Institute | St Louis, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
3 of 28 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Yourcause Holdings Blackbaud Giving Fund
United Way employee matching - Focus St Louis
Youth Leadership Programs - American Heart Association Inc
Heart Disease Research and Prevention - Gateway Region YMCA
Diabetes prevention programs - Ssm Health Foundation
Behavioral urgent care clinic program - Foundation for Barnesjewish Hospital
Support Goldfarb nursing students
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | $410,838 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,758,709 | $27,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Rga Foundation has 3 of them, worth $65,790. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| Barnes Jewish Hospital | St Louis, MO | $35,000 |
| Curators Umsl | Columbia, MO | $15,790 |
| Missouri Colleges Fund Inc | Jefferson City, MO | $15,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 56% of this one's giving went to organizations in Missouri. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Rga Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 16600 Swingley Ridge Rd, Chesterfield, MO, 63017. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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