· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| First United Methodist | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $2,000 |
| Harvesters Comm Food Network | $2,000 |
| Flourish | $2,000 |
| Washburn University Foundation | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $1,000 |
| The Smile Train | $1,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $1,000 |
| Heifer International | $1,000 |
| Humane Society of Kansas City | $500 |
| American Cancer Society | $50 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +208%
SMILE TRAIN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +24%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PCPartridge Community Churchone grant, 2022 · $500
- HHHospice Homecare of Reno Countyone grant, 2021 · $500
- SCSUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50 · revenue +164%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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.
- Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Flourish ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laster Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laster Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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