New York · Nonprofit
A LEG TO STAND ON INC
A LEG TO STAND ON INC (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,462,458 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($204,914). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What A Leg to Stand on Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to provide free, high-quality prosthetic limbs, orthotic devices, and appropriately fitted wheelchairs to children with limb disabilities in the developing world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
More than 106 million children live with untreated disabilities in emerging countries. 95% of these children cannot afford even rudimentary care, let alone the follow up care that is needed as they grow. Without access to mobility care, less than 10% of these children attend school. In 2025, A Leg To Stand On served 658 patients in South Asia , aged infant through 25 years, with high-quality prosthetic limbs, orthotic braces, and appropriately fitted wheelchairs. Orthopedic care included ongoing care for recurring patients and the registration and treatment of new patients. In 2025, 70% of school aged children treated under A Leg To Stand On's programs were attending school or had already graduated, as of their most recent treatment. Mobility helps provide independence, access to education, and improves quality of life for patients served and their families.
$463,557 spent41% of program spendingMore than 106 million children live with untreated disabilities in emerging countries. 95% of these children cannot afford even rudimentary care, let alone the follow up care that is needed as they grow. Without access to mobility care, less than 10% of these children attend school. In 2025, A Leg To Stand On served 642 patients in Southeast Asia, aged infant through 25 years, with high-quality prosthetic limbs, orthotic braces, and appropriately fitted wheelchairs. Orthopedic care included ongoing care for recurring patients and the registration and treatment of new patients. In 2025, 70% of school aged children treated under A Leg To Stand On's programs were attending school or had already graduated, as of their most recent treatment. Mobility helps provide independence, access to education, and improves quality of life for patients served and their families.
$452,285 spent40% of program spendingMore than 106 million children live with untreated disabilities in emerging countries. 95% of these children cannot afford even rudimentary care, let alone the follow up care that is needed as they grow. Without access to mobility care, less than 10% of these children attend school. In 2025, A Leg To Stand On served 146 patients in Africa, aged infant through 25 years, with high-quality prosthetic limbs, orthotic braces, and appropriately fitted wheelchairs. Orthopedic care included ongoing care for recurring patients and the registration and treatment of new patients. In 2025, 70% of school aged children treated under A Leg To Stand On's programs were attending school or had already graduated, as of their most recent treatment. Mobility helps provide independence, access to education, and improves quality of life for patients served and their families.
$102,856 spent9% of program spendingMore than 106 million children live with untreated disabilities in emerging countries. 95% of these children cannot afford even rudimentary care, let alone the follow up care that is needed as they grow. Without access to mobility care, less than 10% of these children attend school. In 2025, A Leg To Stand On served140 patients in Southeastern Europe, aged infant through 25 years, with high-quality, appropriately fitted wheelchairs. Orthopedic care included ongoing care for recurring patients and the registration and treatment of new patients. In 2025, 70% of school aged children treated under A Leg To Stand On's programs were attending school or had already graduated, as of their most recent treatment. Mobility helps provide independence, access to education, and improves quality of life for patients served and their families.
$98,629 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,117,327.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $572k to $840k (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of A LEG TO STAND ON INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
C Mead Welles
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $37k → $160k.
11 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A LEG TO STAND ON INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A LEG TO STAND ON INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A LEG TO STAND ON INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 31% · 2019 20% · 2020 21% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of A LEG TO STAND ON INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of A LEG TO STAND ON INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $551k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $911k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A LEG TO STAND ON INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like A LEG TO STAND ON INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A LEG TO STAND ON INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A LEG TO STAND ON INC?
- A LEG TO STAND ON INC (New York) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,462,458 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($204,914). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A LEG TO STAND ON INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $1,462,458 in grants to A LEG TO STAND ON INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A LEG TO STAND ON INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $204,914 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A LEG TO STAND ON INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing