THE BACKSTOPPERS INC

EIN 43-6032561 SAINT LOUIS, MO

Revenue 2024: $8,597,220
Expenses 2024: $5,272,705

Program services were 70.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
Classification: 1000
Street: 10411 CLAYTON RD STE A5

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).

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.

JOHN CAPPS

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
HONORABLE MARY RUSSELL

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
PATRICK BEHAN JR

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
MARK GAERTNER

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
SCOTT SCHNUCK

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
MARK J BADE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
PATRICK BARRETT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
AUGUST BUSCH IV

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
EDWARD L DOWD JR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
FLINT W FOWLER PHD

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JEFF FOX

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
GARY GREWE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
CATHERINE HANAWAY

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JIM HOFMAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
ROBERT P MCCULLOCH

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
CHRISSY NARDINI

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JERRY POTTHOFF

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
DANIEL A RANIERE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
COL STEVEN C ROBERTS SR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JOHN SCHICKER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JASON SCHNUCK

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
SUSIE SCHULTE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
THOM SEHNERT

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
MICHAEL F SHANAHAN JR

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
JOHN SONDAG

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

The first 25 listed. 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

$8,597,220

Expenses

$5,272,705

Contributions

$6,347,388

Grants paid

$3,326,284
2023

Revenue

$8,780,268

Expenses

$4,523,017

Contributions

$7,278,504

Grants paid

$2,952,147
2022

Revenue

$7,925,868

Expenses

$4,455,984

Contributions

$7,060,871

Grants paid

$2,883,944

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$8,597,220	$5,272,705	$6,347,388	$3,326,284
2023	$8,780,268	$4,523,017	$7,278,504	$2,952,147
2022	$7,925,868	$4,455,984	$7,060,871	$2,883,944

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
2021 · 990

Revenue

$10,650,014

Expenses

$3,781,794

Assets (EOY)

$58,482,364
2021 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2020 · 990

Revenue

$5,789,874

Expenses

$3,887,181

Assets (EOY)

$45,601,352
2020 · 990-T

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

not reported

Assets (EOY)

not reported
2019 · 990

Revenue

$5,764,218

Expenses

$3,650,694

Assets (EOY)

$38,110,394
2018 · 990

Revenue

$5,937,290

Expenses

$3,137,828

Assets (EOY)

$30,671,491
2017 · 990

Revenue

$5,128,682

Expenses

$2,603,295

Assets (EOY)

$29,491,291
2016 · 990

Revenue

$4,647,794

Expenses

$3,823,671

Assets (EOY)

$24,275,817

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2024	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2023	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2021	990	$10,650,014	$3,781,794	$58,482,364
2021	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2020	990	$5,789,874	$3,887,181	$45,601,352
2020	990-T	not reported	not reported	not reported
2019	990	$5,764,218	$3,650,694	$38,110,394
2018	990	$5,937,290	$3,137,828	$30,671,491
2017	990	$5,128,682	$2,603,295	$29,491,291
2016	990	$4,647,794	$3,823,671	$24,275,817

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

ST LOUIS COUNTY POLICE WELFARE ASSOCIATION

$20,000

2024 LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

ST LOUIS GUNS N HOSES BOXING ASSOCIATION

$793,611

2022 SEE PART IV
ST LOUIS GUNS N HOSES BOXING ASSOCIATION

$788,640

2023 TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE CAUSES OF THE ORGANIZATION IN ASSISTING FAMILIES OF POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WHO DIE IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
ST LOUIS GUNS N HOSES BOXING ASSOCIATION

$783,881

2024 TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE CAUSES OF THE ORGANIZATION IN ASSISTING FAMILIES OF POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WHO DIE IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
ST LOUIS GUNS N HOSES BOXING ASSOCIATION

$769,998

2025 TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE CAUSES OF THE ORGANIZATION IN ASSISTING FAMILIES OF POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WHO DIE IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$434,825

2022 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$195,012

2024 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$138,842

2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$120,394

2023 PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$115,322

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$79,085

2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

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 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.