YouthBridge Community Foundation

10/30/2025

Holiday Fun for Children & Families...Shedrow Farm!

10/30/2025

Serving Better Together

Through a Partnership or Merger Grant, YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis made it possible for Caritas Family Solutions and Human Support Services (HSS) to merge—strengthening the safety net for families across Southern Illinois.

Photo: Caritas Caritas and Human Support Services – Serving Better Together Through a Partnership or Merger Grant, YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis made it possible for Caritas Family Solutions and Human Support Services (HSS) to merge—strengthening the safety net for famili...

10/30/2025

YouthBridge News, October 2025

Caritas • Agency Funholder Spotlight: Giant Steps of Saint Louis • 501(c)(3) Essentials: Powering Nonprofits for Early Childhood Success • From Training to Impact: Fundholders Lead the Way • Trick or Treat…How about Trick or TREE! • Now Accepting Scholarship Applications • Two reasons to celebrate charitable giving • Three clients. Three solutions. One common theme. • Inherited IRAs: A charitable solution?

Photo: Caritas October 2025 Caritas • Agency Funholder Spotlight: Giant Steps of Saint Louis • 501(c)(3) Essentials: Powering Nonprofits for Early Childhood Success • From Training to Impact: Fundholders Lead the Way • Trick or Treat…How about Trick or TREE! • Now Accepting Scholarship A...

10/30/2025

YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis offers endowment building services to help nonprofit agencies generate income for longer-term initiatives. Each month we spotlight one Agency Fundholder to shine light on these meaningful relationships. This month we feature Giant Steps of St. Louis.

Giant Steps of Saint Louis Agency Fundholder Spotlight: Giant Steps of Saint Louis YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis offers endowment building services to help nonprofit agencies generate income for longer-term initiatives. Delivering access to low-cost, high-quality investment s...

10/30/2025

No two of your clients are exactly alike, which is why you tailor your advice to the specific circumstances of each client’s life, finances, and goals. For inspiration, we’re happy to offer three examples of client scenarios and how the community foundation can work alongside you to help handle the charitable components of a client’s plan.

Photo: Special Education Foundation Three clients. Three solutions. One common theme. We’ve rounded the corner into the fourth quarter! As the calendar year draws to a close, you’re likely well aware that charitable giving is not only important to your clients first and foremost as an act of gen...

10/30/2025

You are not alone if you miss the old “stretch IRA.” Many attorneys, CPAs, and financial advisors recommended this technique to help the heirs of their deceased clients avoid a big income tax hit. For a specific type of client, though, it may be possible to mimic the benefit of the stretch IRA by using a charitable remainder trust.

Photo: Pathways to Independence Inherited IRAs: A charitable solution? Remember the good old days when your clients could withdraw the money they inherited in their parents’ IRAs over the course of their lifetimes, thereby deferring the income tax for as long as possible? This so-called “stretch...

10/30/2025

There’s already a lot going on in October, and you can add DAF Day to the mix, as well as National Estate Planning Week. Both of these annual events are promoted nationally, and your clients are likely to hear about them. The community foundation is happy to offer tips to help you tap the momentum to inspire your clients to update their financial plans, estate plans, and charitable giving strategies.

Photo: Marygrove Two reasons to celebrate charitable giving* *And three steps to engage your clients There’s a lot to celebrate in October! National Estate Planning Week For many attorneys, financial advisors, and CPAs, estate planning is part of your client conversations every single month, week,...

10/30/2025

Endowment Power: Securing Camp Rainbow’s Future

For many children, summer involves vacations, carefree trips to the playground or swimming pool or perhaps a week spent with grandparents or at summer camp. A child receiving treatment for cancer may not have the same opportunities. Camp Rainbow aims to remedy some of what a patient might miss, as well as provide a community of support.

Photo: Camper showing off her new stuffed animal at our Oncology Camp Carnival night, with her counselors. 
Photographer: Carly Scaduto Photography Endowment Power: Securing Camp Rainbow’s Future For many children, summer involves vacations, carefree trips to the playground or swimming pool or p...

10/30/2025

TBFK Grant Awardee

Congratulations to Turn the Page STL on being a recipient of a Think Big for Kids Grant! Turn the Page STL’s Tutoring Project is transforming opportunities for children by boosting literacy for K–4 students in St. Louis Promise Zone School Districts. With 18 partner organizations, the initiative aims to reach 16,000 students not yet reading proficiently and expand tutoring by 1,000 students each year.

Application info While Think Big for Kids accepts grant applications by invitation only, we welcome inquiries. Preview LOI For further information, please contact Sissy Swift. Think Big for Kids Think Big for Kids grants are designed to stimulate innovative thinking and fund big ideas. We invite pro...

10/30/2025

As tax advisors have had time to dig into the OBBBA’s new rules for charitable deductions, it is beginning to dawn on many that the new limits for corporate deductions may throw a wrench into a lot of clients’ plans. Learn why, and what to do about it.

Photo: Special Education Foundation Floor to ceiling: Four factors that will influence corporate giving now and later At YouthBridge Community Foundation of Greater St. Louis, we work with business leaders and business owners to structure charitable giving plans that achieve the company’s goals fo...

10/30/2025

YouthBridge Board Expands with Inspiring New Member: Brennan Connor

Brennan P. Connor is a partner in the transactional group at Carmody MacDonald, where his practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and estate and tax planning. A lifelong St. Louisan, he lives in Webster Groves with his wife, Claire, and their two dogs and two cats. After serving on the YouthBridge grant committee, he saw firsthand the organization’s impact in the community and is honored to continue supporting its mission as a member of the board.

10/30/2025

Supporting St. Louis Tornado Relief with Compassion and Strategy

In the wake of the devastating tornadoes that struck the St. Louis region, YouthBridge Community Foundation has stepped forward with a powerful blend of compassion, strategic action, and long-term vision. As a local philanthropic organization with a deep-rooted commitment to children, youth, and families, YouthBridge has reallocated $100,000 in grant funding to support tornado relief—providing immediate help and laying the groundwork for sustained recovery.

Photo Credit: Tyler Smalls Supporting St. Louis Tornado Relief with Compassion and Strategy In the wake of the devastating tornadoes that struck the St. Louis region, YouthBridge Community Foundation has stepped forward with a powerful blend of compassion, strategic action, and long-term vision. As....