The fund development team at Beyond Housing recently added Nico Krehmeyer as a gift officer. He comes to the community development nonprofit from Midwest BankCentre, where he served as project coordinator for the Community and Economic Development team.
Krehmeyer grew up hearing about Beyond Housing’s work from his father, President and CEO Chris Krehmeyer, and has volunteered for the nonprofit since his youth. “I remember from my earliest days seeing the impact and the excitement but also the lessons and challenges,” he said. “I have seen many ups and downs.”
His involvement grew in 2024, when he helped lead a resurgent Young Friends organization as co-chair along with Adrienne Groves.
Groves eventually joined the Beyond Housing staff as a major gift officer. In that role, she coordinates closely with Fund Development Manager Kiah Earl, who recruited both Groves and Krehmeyer to serve as Young Friends co-chairs. “Now the three of us are working as colleagues, and I’m so grateful,” Krehmeyer said.
Krehmeyer’s early career included a corporate role at Best Buy Mobile. However, when Midwest BankCentre opened a branch at Page and Ferguson avenues near Carter Commons in Pagedale, “I knew I wanted to be connected with Midwest BankCentre,” he said. “I was at the ribbon cutting, and I remember how exciting it was for the community.”
He joined the bank in 2019 as a universal banker at the Lemay branch. “I was thrown into the thick of community banking at one of the busiest branches in St. Louis,” he said. He appreciated the energy of new initiatives such as the Rising Bank online subsidiary that launched the same year he joined the company, but he was especially enthusiastic about the bank’s expansion into North City with the Friendly Temple branch on Martin Luther King Boulevard and the R&R Marketplace branch in Dellwood.
“They established three impactful branches where banking services were needed, and they developed tailored products to support residents of Pagedale, Dellwood, and North City,” Krehmeyer said. “Moreover, all three branches exist because of the strength of great nonprofit partnerships.”
Throughout his years at Midwest BankCentre, Krehmeyer immersed himself in outreach connected to the bank’s work in community and economic development and financial empowerment. He estimates he engaged with 200 of its 1,000 local partner organizations. The impact he saw encouraged him to enter the nonprofit sector professionally. “I’m excited that I can use my career to continue making a difference,” he said.
Krehmeyer plans to continue to build on the relationships he established at Midwest BankCentre while deepening his connections within Beyond Housing’s network of supporters.
“The Once and for All effort is very inspiring. It’s great to see others thinking more regionally, and at the same time to see Beyond Housing scaling to impact more families locally,” he said. “We have an opportunity to bring new people and new groups into the fold.”
