Innovate St Louis

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
205235736
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2016
Forms available
Form 990 2013, Form 990-EZ 2016
Location
St Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3144441154
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Science and Technology N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$4,193
Assets
$56,103
Liabilities
$2,250

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Marilyn Gannon (Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Gilbert Bickel III (Chairman)
  • Maxine Clark (Director)
  • Denny Coleman (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Innovate st. Louis focuses on the promotion of science and technology by facilitating, stimulating, and sponsoring educational endeavors which will ultimately serve to make st. Louis a haven to innovation.

What it reported doing in 2016

Innovate St. Louis developed and operates a regional web portal for entrepreneurship, www.acceleratestlouis.org. It is designed to provide entrepreneurs with a one-stop-shop online portal to resources, tools, aggregated events, and news.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
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: 82
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.38; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -90.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -41.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 29 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.