Go St Louis
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 431864732
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3147270800
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,387,619
- Expenses
- $1,394,376
- Assets
- $573,946
- Liabilities
- $283,387
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONICA VESPA (PRESIDENT)
- SUSAN SAUER (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MONICA VESPA (PRESIDENT): $149,900 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Go st. Louis, a local non-profit organization, encourages individuals and families in the st. Louis region to adopt a healthy and active lifestyle year round. The organization accomplishes this through community collaborations, school based programming, and the creation of new and unique fitness events.
What it reported doing in 2024
Go st. Louis promotes health and fitness by offering programs and events throughout the year for people of all ages and abilities. The organization's youth programs serve over 5,000 students annually, and go st. Louis events cater to 20,000 runners and walkers each year. Events include: the greater st. Louis marathon weekend (full marathon, half marathon, 10k, 5k, mature mile, childrens fun runs), the go st. Louis kt82 trail relay (a 6-person trail relay), and the go st. Louis great halloween race (half marathon, 10k, 5k, 1-mile fun run.) youth and community programs include: read, right & run marathon, a program for elementary and middle school students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.7%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.5%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.7% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 34/100.