St Louis Office for Developmental
Saint Louis, MO · EIN 43-1232363. Reported 143 grants totalling $23.4M to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 26% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 97% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $92,082. Half of what it reported fell between $33,663 and $178,145; the smallest was $7,477 and the largest $1,756,767. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Louis Arc Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $6,026,674 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Association on Aging With Developmental Disabilities | Saint Louis, MO | $2,439,718 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Horizon Housing Development Company | Saint Louis, MO | $1,594,888 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mers Missouri Goodwill Industries | Saint Louis, MO | $1,370,887 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bridges Community Support Services | St Louis, MO | $1,050,466 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Industrial Aid Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $1,042,180 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Horizon North Housing Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $932,072 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Easter Seals Midwest | Saint Louis, MO | $808,966 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| United Cerebral Palsy Heartland | Saint Louis, MO | $598,456 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Project Cu Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $590,438 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sunny Hill Inc | Fenton, MO | $578,447 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Center for Head Injury | St Louis, MO | $571,503 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lifebridge Partnership | Saint Louis, MO | $551,752 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| House of Pais | Saint Louis, MO | $512,958 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Worth Industries Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $468,816 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Paraquad Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $439,370 | 7 | 4 | 2023 |
| Preferred Family Healthcare Inc | Springfield, MO | $414,081 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Canterbury Enterprises Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $378,562 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Family Advocacy & Community Training | Saint Charles, MO | $355,397 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Recreation Council of Greater St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $312,478 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Artists First | Saint Louis, MO | $255,974 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dmh (mental Health Trust Fund) Controller's Office | Jefferson City, MO | $230,696 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Southside Wellness | St Louis, MO | $222,325 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Heartland Industries Incorporated | Saint Louis, MO | $208,436 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $177,768 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Focus on Residential Services | Saint Louis, MO | $167,643 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Epworth Children & Family Services Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $166,481 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Epilepsy Foundation | St Louis, MO | $154,905 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Options for Justice for Persons With Developmental Disabilities | Creve Coeur, MO | $94,263 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jazz Transportation | Florissant, MO | $91,685 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pathways to Independence | Saint Louis, MO | $91,355 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Gateway Region Young Mens Christian Association | Saint Louis, MO | $77,012 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rainbow Village Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $74,503 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Greater St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $71,325 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Broadway Transportation | Hazelwood, MO | $52,188 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Chapel for the Exceptional | Saint Louis, MO | $47,947 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Best Buddies International Inc | Miami, FL | $41,382 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Judevine Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $33,783 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Delta Gamma Center for Children With Visual Impairments | Saint Louis, MO | $26,158 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City Seniors Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $17,168 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southside Early Childhood Center | Saint Louis, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Municipal Theatre Association of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $13,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oats Inc | Columbia, MO | $11,627 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Mercy Hospitals East Communities | Chesterfield, MO | $9,009 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
33 of 44 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- St Louis Arc
TO PROVIDE PROGRAMS FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSONS IN ST. LOUIS CITY.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 37 | $5,618,305 | $90,000 |
| 2021 | 34 | $5,520,870 | $92,866 |
| 2022 | 33 | $5,777,162 | $91,573 |
| 2023 | 39 | $6,473,905 | $95,058 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $92,082 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from St Louis Office for Developmental's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2121 Hampton Avenue, Saint Louis, MO, 63139.
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