Greater St Louis Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 371982729
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3142315555
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,458,800
- Expenses
- $18,339,100
- Assets
- $8,607,082
- Liabilities
- $1,313,839
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
48 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JASON HALL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JASON HALL (CEO): $541,848 total reported compensation
- SAMUEL MURPHEY (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $431,877 total reported compensation
- DUSTIN ALLISON (CHIEF REAL ESTATE INVESTME): $353,777 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Greater st. Louis, inc. Brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. Louis metro area's global competitiveness. We speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and act as one metropolitan region anchored by a vibrant urban core. The greater st. Louis, inc. Model is built on best-in-class examples of how other metro areas are organized to drive economic development, such as charlotte, denver, des moines, indianapolis, and pittsburgh.
What it reported doing in 2024
In its fourth year in operation, greater st. Louis, inc. Unified the metro area's business and civic community to drive inclusive economic growth for st. Louis. Stewarding the stl 2030 jobs plan, greater st. Louis, inc. Completed deals that created hundreds of new, high-quality jobs and millions of dollars in investment across the region. Also led a collaborative that continued the development of the metro's advanced manufacturing sector, rallied the region to support the geospatial technology sector here, made significant investments toward strengthening the region's urban core, and built a coalition in support of the transformation of lambert st. Louis international airport. Greater st. Louis, inc. Continues to work to expand the number of jobs and businesses in the metro and to promote st. Louis on the global stage.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 76.2%; rating input score 76; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.47; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 35 of 35 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $542K · 48 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.2M reported
- Consistency: 11 of 12 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 27 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 26 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.