Where Your Donation goes
Where Does Your Donation Go?
During our the past fiscal year (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011), Discovering Options raised $304,973.00 in funding through grants, donations and events.
We held two major and several smaller fundraising events. Our annual Trivia Night “We Love T.V.” was attended by 385 people and Cirque, our annual event was attended by 125 people. Those major events helped us raise $53,643.00. Individual donations and our participation in smaller fundraising events like in Sips in the City generated $25,809.00 in revenue.
PREP is funded by matching grants from the City of St. Louis Mental Health Board of Trustees, and the State of Missouri, Department of Mental Health, Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Those two grants totaled $148,321.00.
Discovering Options also received a number of grants from family and private foundations, totaling $77,200.00. These included:
- The Bickford Foundation
- The Cardinals Care Foundation
- *The Enterprise Trust Company
- The Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation
- Lock and Chain Sophomore Honorary
- Missouri Foundation for Health
- Saint Louis Unitarian Foundation for Children
- Whole Foods Market
- Will Flores Foundation
*Private family trust
We cannot give enough thanks to everyone who supports us through monetary giving.
But Discovering Options gets a lot more than just money – we get peoples’ valuable time. Over the past year, in addition to our 88 mentors we’ve had more than 30 volunteers. Without them, our programs simply couldn’t exist.
Overall, Discovering Options puts 53% of all funds back into programs. Another 39% goes to administration – which includes the infrastructure that supports the programs – and 8% goes to fundraising expenses. Major expenses include:
$163,790.00 for salaries and wages (including program managers and classroom facilitators)
$116,171.00 for professional services (including program services such as accounting, audit services, technical support, and website hosting.)
$16,000 for annual rent of administrative offices and program space
