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Lato Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Lato Family Foundation Inc

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.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$205kEducation$77kInternational$43kHousing & Shelter$24kAnimals$16kSocial Science$13kArts & Culture$8kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$656k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WI CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY$10,000
GLOBAL SCHOLARS$8,500
MILWAUKE RESCUE MISSION$7,500
BROOKLINK INC$7,000
TELLING THE TRUTH$6,000
KINGDOM PREP ACADEMY$5,000
COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK$5,000
FRONTIERS$4,000
GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC$4,000
CLAPHAM INSTITUTE$4,000
ADVANCED STUDIES IN CULTURE$2,000
UNITED WORLD MISSION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CLAPHAM INSTITUTE: $6k → 9%COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK: $5k → 13%STACEY ELIZABETH MAYER FOUNDATION: $3k → 5%OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5k → 6%MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 17%WORLDWIDE HEART TO HEART MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $4k → 8%IN MEDIA RES: $3k → 8%CLPHAM INSTITUTE: $6k → 6%GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $5k → 9%TELLING THE TRUTH INC: $33k → 5%MILWAUKE RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 17%GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $4k → 8%CLAPHAM INSTITUTE: $4k → 6%TELLING THE TRUTH INC: $25k → 5%MILWAUKE RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 17%GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK: $4k → 8%WI CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY: $13k → 5%KINGDOM PREP ACADEMY: $6k → 17%WI CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY: $10k → 5%KINGDOM PREP ACADEMY: $5k → 17%WISCONSIN CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ST: $10k → 5%KINGDOM PREP ACADEMY: $4k → 17%WI CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUDY: $10k → 5%MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 5%WISCONSIN CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN STUD: $8k → 5%GLOBAL SCHOLARS: $8k → 5%MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 5%GLOBAL SCHOLARS: $8k → 5%CLAPHAM INSTITUTE: $7k → 5%CLAPHAM INSTITUTE: $7k → 5%GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $6k → 5%BROOKLINK INC: $6k → 5%GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $5k → 5%FRONTIERS: $5k → 5%FRONTIERS: $5k → 5%IN MEDIAS RES: $4k → 5%GLOBAL SERVICES NETWORK: $4k → 5%GLOBAL SERVICES NETWORK: $4k → 5%KINGDOM PREP ACADEMY: $4k → 5%IN MEDIAS RES: $4k → 5%BROOKLINK INC: $4k → 5%TELLING THE TRUTH: $13k → 5%BROOKLINK INC: $7k → 5%BROOKLINK INC: $7k → 5%TELLING THE TRUTH: $7k → 5%TELLING THE TRUTH: $6k → 5%BROOKLINK INC: $5k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
OR
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$365k · 19 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$365k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-20%

Still filing today

32%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AI
    ADMIRATO INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +109%
  • BI
    BROOKLINK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +89%
  • MF
    MIO Frontiers
    3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • WC
    WISCONSIN CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ST
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • WH
    WORLDWIDE HEART TO HEART MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -20%
  • GD
    GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -85%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
4
Global Opportunities for Christinc

Support indigenous christian missions overseas

Religion
5
Institute of Chinese Studies

ChinsSource is a trusted partner and platform for educating the global church on critical issues facing the church and ministries in China and for connecting Christians inside and outside China to advance the kingdom of God globally

International
6
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…

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7
GlobalChurch Inc

To equip the global Church for discipleship, service, and impactful collaboration with the goal of fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.

Religion
8
Mission Without Borders International

The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…

International
9
Globeworks International Inc

International missions and evangelism

Religion
10
Crossing Cultures International Inc

Crossing Cultures International, Inc. exists to glorify God by equipping Christ followers globally with comprehensive training for effective ministry.

Religion
11
God's Bible School College & Missionary Training Home

God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…

Education
12
International Commission Inc

Equipping and enabling believers worldwide to conduct church-based evangelism projects to reach unbelievers and make disciples.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Scholars; the most unlike its peers is Stacey Elizabeth Mayer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION: $39,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSIONBROOKLINK INC: $29,000 · OtherBROOKLINK INCGLOBAL SCHOLARS: $25,500 · OtherGLOBAL SCHOLARSKINGDOM PREP ACADEMY: $18,500 · OtherKINGDOM PREP ACADEMYGLOBAL SCHOLARS: $15,000 · OtherGLOBAL SCHOLARSCLAPHAM INSTITUTE: $13,000 · OtherCLAPHAM INSTITUTEGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES: $11,000 · OtherWISCONSIN CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN ST: $10,000 · OtherFRONTIERS: $9,000 · OtherIN MEDIAS RES: $8,000 · OtherGLOBAL SERVICES NETWORK: $8,000 · OtherMESA GLOBAL: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · Other+4 more: $16,500 · Other+4 moreTELLING THE TRUTH INC: $83,000 · ReligionTELLING THE TRUTH INCADMIRATO INC: $40,000 · ReligionADMIRATO INCCLAPHAM INSTITUTE INC: $15,500 · ReligionCLAPHAM INSTITUTE INCMIO Frontiers: $12,000 · ReligionMIO Frontiers+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $12,000 · EducationOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $4,500 · EducationStacey Elizabeth Mayer Foundation Inc: $3,000 · EducationIN MEDIAS RES: $3,000 · EducationWORLDWIDE HEART TO HEART MINISTRIES: $5,000 · InternationalGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $5,000 · International
Other$218,000Religion$155,500Education$22,500International$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTELLING THE TRUTH INC: $83,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetADMIRATO INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBROOKLINK INC: $29,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetGLOBAL SCHOLARS: $25,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLAPHAM INSTITUTE INC: $15,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetGLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDWIDE HEART TO HEART MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetOZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStacey Elizabeth Mayer Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetIN MEDIAS RES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 TELLING THE TRUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds ADMIRATO INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds CLAPHAM INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL SERVICE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMISSION MINISTERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds WORLDWIDE HEART TO HEART MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds OZAUKEE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Stacey Elizabeth Mayer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds IN MEDIAS RES ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA13× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lato Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lato Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 28 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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