Missouri · Private foundation
Laster Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $22k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $47k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Laster Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $22k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $26k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $26k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $28k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $27k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldersgate United Methodist Church | $90,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Salvation Army | $7,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Washburn University Foundation | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Flourish | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $1,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Summit Christian Academy | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Laster Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Laster Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Laster Family Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $21,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Laster Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (63%), Health (12%), Education (11%).
- Who are Laster Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Aldersgate United Methodist Church ($90k), Salvation Army ($7k), Washburn University Foundation ($7k).
- Does Laster Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laster Family Charitable 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 Laster Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Laster Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Laster Family Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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