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Larson Financial Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$381kInternational$155kHealth$132kHuman Services$116kEducation$98kCommunity Improvement$94kEmployment$66kPhilanthropy$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k81 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$500
Median grant
16
States reached
$517k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL$54,500
HEARTCRY MISSIONARY$13,100
HUMAN COALITION$10,000
RUEL FOUNDATION$8,169
SAMARITANS PURSE$4,854
FAITH CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$3,000
CHAPEL OF THE LAKE$2,555
Individual grant recipient$1,825
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,800
ST PATRICK'S CENTER$1,350
CONVOY OF HOPE$1,040
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$900
CRU - CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$700
ONE MORE CHILD$700
THE KING'S ACADEMY$619
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AVIVO: $300 → 6%THE DWELLING PLACE: $500 → 7%HUMAN COALITION: $67k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON: $450 → 16%UTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL: $55k → 9%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $750 → 12%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $750 → 11%HUMAN COALITION: $10k → 5%GATEWAY 180: $300 → 21%INTERNATIONAL HOUSE: $10k → 12%UTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL: $51k → 9%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $200 → 11%HUMAN COALITION: $150 → 5%UTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%GOSPEL INC: $750 → 16%FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER: $1k → 11%GOSPEL INC: $500 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $300 → 11%THE BUDDY FUND: $200 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$666k · 44 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
63

Total granted

$666k
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UI
    UTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $106k · revenue +58%
  • HC
    HUMAN COALITION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $77k · revenue +64%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • VA
    VARIOUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
    one grant, 2022 · $631k
  • FM
    FAITH MINISTRIES LAFAYETTE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • MC
    MY CANCER HAVEN
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Time of Grace Ministry

Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…

Religion
3
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
New Life Solutions Inc

To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.

Health
5
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.

Human Services
6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
8
Relief International Inc

Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…

International
9
Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge

Witnessing to god's love for all people, we stand with and advocate for migrants and refugees, transforming communities through ministries of service and justice.

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Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
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Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is My Cancer Haven. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesChristian Youth CampsFood Banks and PantriesElementary Literacy TutoringPublic Library OperationsMilitary Veterans SupportSchool District FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community Organizati…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%11%5–10yr16%22%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr24%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%35%5–10yr16%30%10–20yr15%10%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr24%4%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,400

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 153 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
51/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST — $631,282 · OtherVARIOUS - AVAILABLE UPON REQUESTK-LIFE MINISTRIES — $112,884 · OtherK-LIFE MINISTRIESFAITH MINISTRIES LAFAYETTE — $100,000 · OtherFAITH MINISTRIES LAFAYETTEHEARTCRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $82,278 · OtherHEARTCRY MISSIONARY SOCIETY INCORPORATEDAFRICAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · OtherAFRICAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYLOVEWELL FOUNDATION — $66,431 · OtherLARSON FINANCIAL FOUNDATION - MAURITIUS — $65,025 · Other+103 more — $282,527 · Other+103 moreUTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL — $106,350 · Human ServicesUTTERMOST IN…HUMAN COALITION — $77,250 · Human ServicesHUMAN COALIT…INTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC — $10,000 · Human Services+10 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesMY CANCER HAVEN — $100,000 · Health+10 more — $11,150 · HealthCHRIST FOR ALL NATIONS — $11,000 · ReligionREDEEMER DUBAI — $10,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,604 · ReligionBIBLEPROJECT — $2,500 · ReligionLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $1,250 · ReligionLOVE THE LOU — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $1,250 · Community ImprovementMISSION ST LOUIS — $450 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $11,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $150 · Civil RightsCompassion International Incorporated — $3,750 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE — $1,790 · InternationalMAASAI GIRLS RESCUE CENTER INC — $1,750 · InternationalJeremie Christian Mission Inc — $750 · InternationalLOVE A CHILD INC — $750 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $550 · International+3 more — $650 · International
Other$1,420,427Human Services$200,100Health$111,150Religion$30,354Community Improvement$11,700Civil Rights$11,150International$9,990

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL — $106,350 over 3y, 12% of budgetHUMAN COALITION — $77,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS — $12,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHRIST FOR ALL NATIONS — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE THE LOU — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetREDEEMER DUBAI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE — $6,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,604 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLEPROJECT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAASAI GIRLS RESCUE CENTER INC — $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOP BUTTONS INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOSPEL INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARKER STREET MINISTRIES INC AND SUBSIDIARIES — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGiant Steps of St Louis Inc — $1,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWE CAN RIDE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGentlemen of Vision Rites of Passage Enterprises — $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY INC — $919 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY FOSTER CLOSET — $900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESIDENTS FOR RESPONDERS — $875 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCUREPSP INC — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJeremie Christian Mission Inc — $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOVE A CHILD INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW INC — $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH THROUGH FIRE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dwelling Place — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UTTERMOST INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds MY CANCER HAVEN
  • Who funds HUMAN COALITION
  • Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS
  • Who funds CHRIST FOR ALL NATIONS
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
  • Who funds LOVE THE LOU
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE INC
  • Who funds REDEEMER DUBAI
  • Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
  • Who funds BIBLEPROJECT

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO27.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Servant Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Tsf · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Givewell Community Foundation Inc · The Campisi Family Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Glenn W & Hazelle Paxson Morrison Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Larson Financial Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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202122232425
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Love a Child Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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