Rga Foundation
Chesterfield, MO · EIN 81-3433180. Reported 70 grants totalling $4,329,591 to 48 recipients across tax years 2023-2025. 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 $25,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $600,000. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Longer Life Foundation | St Louis, MO | $1,175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Yourcause Holdings Blackbaud Giving Fund | Charleston, SC | $719,757 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Yourcause Holdings LLC | Charleston, SC | $419,254 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross - St Louis Area | Medford, MA | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Actuarial Foundation | Schaumburg, IL | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Focus St Louis | St Louis, MO | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Operation Food Search Inc | St Louis, MO | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ssm Health Foundation | St Louis, MO | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Parents As Teachers National Center Inc | Creve Coeur, MO | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater St Louis | Chesterfield, MO | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Provident Inc | St Louis, MO | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Memory Care Home Solutions | St Louis, MO | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Southfield, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Heart Association | Dallas, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Greater St Louis | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Gateway Region YMCA | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Gateway Region Young Mens Christian Association | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Louis Community College Foundation | Bridgeton, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The Launchcode Foundation | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Council for Economic Education | New York, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital Foundation | St Louis, MO | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Barnes Jewish Hospital | St Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Foundation for Barnesjewish Hospital | St Louis, MO | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Chicago, IL | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Missouri - Columbia | Columbia, MO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Webster University | St Louis, MO | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America | St Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Institute for Research and Education in Family Med | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kidsmart | St Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Missouri 4-H Foundation | Columbia, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Museo Asegurador Mexicano | Mexico City, San Angel | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Rung Foundation Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Louis Police Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tabernacle Community Development Corporation | Saint Louis, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Easter Seals Midwest | Ballwin, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Oasis Institute | St Louis, MO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Curators of U of Mo St Louis | Columbia, MO | $15,790 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Curators Umsl | Columbia, MO | $15,790 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Missouri Colleges Fund Inc | Jefferson City, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
18 of 48 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 61%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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 LLC
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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | $410,838 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,758,709 | $27,500 |
| 2025 | 37 | $2,160,044 | $25,000 |
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.
| 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
60% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $25,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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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