· Private foundation
L-A-D Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION (MISSOURI CHAPTER) | $5,000 |
| OPEN SPACE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| OZARK RIVERS AUDUBON CHAPTER | $4,400 |
| AMERICORPS ST LOUIS | $3,340 |
| MO PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $3,112 |
| OZARKS RESOURCE CENTER | $3,000 |
| GREATER OZARKS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| OZARK TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| OZARK RIVERWAYS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MO CAVES AND KARST CONSERVANCY | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| MISSOURI PARKS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| OZARK NATURAL & CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of L-A-D Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 68%.
How this is measured
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization L-A-D Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L-A-D Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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