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BETTER FAMILY LIFE INC

EIN 43-1346617 SAINT LOUIS, MO

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Revenue 2024
$9,192,257
Expenses 2024
$10,036,011

Program services were 79.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S20
Classification
1000
Street
5415 PAGE BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO IMPLEMENT CULTURAL, YOUTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, HOUSING, AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT HELP PROMOTE INNOVATIVE CHANGES WITHIN FAMILIES AND TARGETED NEIGHBORHOODS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSISTANCE TO RESIDENTS OF THE ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN AREA, PROMOTING INNER CITY LIVING AND ENCOURAGE THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENTS OF YOUTHS.

  • YOUTH FAMILY AND CLINICAL SERVICES - A PREVENTIVE AND INTERVENTIVE PROGRAM GEARED TOWARD AT-RISK YOUTHS WHO ARE VICTIMS OR POTENTIAL VICTIMS OF DRUG ABUSE AND GANG VIOLENCE. SERVES APPROXIMATELY 10,000 YOUTHS.

    Expenses $3,135,279

  • WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT - PROGRAM CONNECTS YOUNG ADULT JOB SEEKERS THAT RESIDE IN THE URBAN AREA OF THE ST. LOUIS REGION WITH FAMILY - SUPPORTIVE WORK IN TARGETED INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPATIONS THROUGHOUT THE REGIONAL ECONOMY.

    Expenses $3,999,937

  • COMMUNITY OUTREACH - PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF A MONTHLY PUBLICATION. ENCOMPASSES THE IDENTIFICATION, CULTIVATION AND EXPANSION OF THE COMMUNITY TO PROMOTE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND TO INCREASE INVOLVEMENT IN COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.

    Expenses $360,245

  • Expenses $509,393

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Carmen Dence

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Aaron Robinson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Malaika Horne

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Clyde Crumpton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brandon Blake

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kendrec England

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Johnson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Wayne Harvey

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vernessa Streater

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Latonya Jackson

    TREASURER/FINANCE COMMITTE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Walle Amusa

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alex Fennoy

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Darryl Grimes

    CEO/PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $134,640
    From this org
    $117,249
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,391
    Hours/week
    50

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $9,192,257
    Expenses
    $10,036,011
    Contributions
    $9,226,035
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,243,578
    Expenses
    $8,725,038
    Contributions
    $7,416,453
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,547,445
    Expenses
    $8,269,662
    Contributions
    $7,998,146
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,576,793
    Expenses
    $8,247,231
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,300,452
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,554,911
    Expenses
    $9,209,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,163,971
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,071,631
    Expenses
    $9,786,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,758,401
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,954,237
    Expenses
    $9,497,673
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,470,359
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,432,979
    Expenses
    $9,409,707
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,137,998
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,086,297
    Expenses
    $10,594,659
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,921,055

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • BFL INVESTOR LLC

    INVESTING · MO · income $407,887 · assets $9,840,528

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.