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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 FY2024(still arriving)
84
Grants FY2024
69
Organizations funded FY2023
84%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$54,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 69
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$517k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 84% of the organizations Larson Financial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationInternationalHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving83$130k54%
FY202369$141k84%
FY20221$631k100%
FY202144$583k98%
FY20201$75k100%
FY20183$47k33%
FY20173$185kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K-Life Ministries$112,8843n/a
Uttermost International$106,350312%
My Cancer Haven$100,0001n/a
Heartcry Missionary Society Incorporated$82,2781n/a
Human Coalition$77,25030%
One More Child Inc$12,4503n/a
Advancing Native Missions$12,25030%
Christ for All Nations$11,00010%
Alliance Defending Freedom$11,00010%
Love the Lou$10,00012%
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All grantees of Larson Financial Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
K-Life Ministries$112,8843n/a
Uttermost International$106,350312%
My Cancer Haven$100,0001n/a
Heartcry Missionary Society Incorporated$82,2781n/a
Human Coalition$77,25030%
One More Child Inc$12,4503n/a
Advancing Native Missions$12,25030%
Christ for All Nations$11,00010%
Alliance Defending Freedom$11,00010%
Love the Lou$10,00012%
Redeemer Dubai$10,00011%
International House Inc$10,00015%
Achieve Tahoe$6,10020%
Samaritan's Purse$5,60420%
The Awareness Society DBA Wilderness Awareness School$5,50010%
Compassion International Incorporated$3,7503n/a
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$3,00010%
Bibleproject$2,50010%
American Heart Association Inc$1,80010%
Matthias Lot Church$1,8001n/a
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$1,75020%
Maasai Girls Rescue Center Inc$1,75010%
Gospel Inc$1,25020%
Top Buttons Inc$1,25020%
Fiver Children's Foundation Inc$1,25020%
Parker Street Ministries Inc and Subsidiaries$1,25020%
Lighthouse Ministries Inc$1,25020%
Friends of Kids With Cancer$1,20010%
Giant Steps of St Louis Inc$1,15020%
Queen of Peace Center$1,00010%
Ronald McDonald House Global$1,00010%
St Patrick Center$1,00010%
We Can Ride Inc$1,00010%
Gentlemen of Vision Rites of Passage Enterprises$1,00014%
Pinky Swear Foundation$95020%
The King's Academy Inc$91920%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$90020%
Franklin County Foster Closet$90011%
Residents for Responders$87521%
Curepsp Inc$80020%
Loyola Academy of St Louis$75010%
Love a Child Inc$75010%
Got Your Six Support Dogs$75010%
Camp Rainbow Inc$75011%
Jeremie Christian Mission Inc$75010%
Stray Rescue of St Louis$75010%
Our Rescue$75010%
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$7001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$60020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$55020%
Care Net Pregnancy Center of Milwaukee Inc$50010%
Kid Pack Inc$50010%
St Johns Lutheran Church$5001n/a
Eagle Brook Church$5001n/a
Freedomworks Incorporated$50010%
Operation Food Search Inc$50010%
Access Ministries Inc$5001n/a
Crisis Nursery$50010%
Reading Is Fundamental Inc$50010%
The Dwelling Place$50010%
Bethany Fellowship Inc$5001n/a
Crossway Church$5001n/a
Dogs For Our Brave Inc$50010%
Faith Through Fire Inc$50010%
University of Minnesota Foundation$50010%
New Life Family Services$50010%
City Hope St Louis$50020%
Immanuel Lutheran Church$5001n/a
Foundations Kenya$45010%
Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area$45010%
Mission St Louis$45010%
People Serving People Inc$35020%
Friends of the Library$30010%
Gateway Homeless Services Inc$30010%
Assure Womens Center$30010%
Avivo$30010%
Mercy Ships International$30010%
Gateway Pet Guardians$25020%
Firefighters for Healing$20010%
Living Water Missions$20010%
Room at the Inn$20010%
Lifes River$20010%
African Christian University$20010%
23rd Veteran$20010%
The Buddy Fund$20010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$20010%
Word of Life Inc$2001n/a
Spring Branch Education Foundation$2001n/a
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$15010%
Institute for Justice$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Larson Financial Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetRedeemer Dubai: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInternational House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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 budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaasai Girls Rescue Center Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGospel Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTop Buttons Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFiver Children's Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParker Street Ministries Inc and Subsidiaries: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Ministries Inc: $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 budgetQueen of Peace Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Patrick Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Can Ride Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGentlemen of Vision Rites of Passage Enterprises: $1,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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 budgetLoyola Academy of St Louis: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove a Child Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGot Your Six Support Dogs: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Rainbow Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJeremie Christian Mission Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStray Rescue of St Louis: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Rescue: $750 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetCare Net Pregnancy Center of Milwaukee Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKid Pack Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFreedomworks Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Food Search Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Nursery: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 75.

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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 tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Larson Financial Foundation

How much does Larson Financial Foundation give?
Larson Financial Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $131,052 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Larson Financial Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (21%), International (9%), Health (7%).
Who are Larson Financial Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: K-Life Ministries ($113k), Uttermost International ($106k), My Cancer Haven ($100k).
Does Larson Financial Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 84% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Larson Financial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Larson Financial Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, World Wide Technology Foundation.
Where is Larson Financial Foundation based?
Larson Financial Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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