Missouri · Nonprofit
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,865,476 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($1,307,617). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Della Lamb Community Services does
Mission
Della Lamb Community Services exists to empower its clients to meet the challenges of education, employment, and self-sufficiency in an ever- changing world. Its vision is that every individual will be nourished, educated, and supported in an atmosphere of love and respect to permit them to achieve their full potential. Core services include transportation services for the low-income, elderly and disabled, refugee resettlement, early childhood education, youth services, and social services including emergency assistance and holiday events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide safe, low-cost, door to door transportation, and access to medical and nutritional services for the lower-income, elderly, and handicapped
$1,534,202 spent$5,270 earned by the program18% of program spendingTo provide quality state-licensed and state-accredited child care for children of low-income families, especially single parents who are seeking job opportunities, working, or receiving education.
$1,075,128 spent$348,784 earned by the program13% of program spendingTo provide services to refugees such as assistance with housing, food, clothing, professional services, english language education, and employment placement to aid in their transition into their new community and toward self-sufficiency.
$5,251,523 spentof which $2,160,379 as grants63% of program spendingTo involve youth-provide them with opportunities to assert themselves in constructive ways, stimulate their self-awareness and expression, help them avoid illicit substances, teach alternatives to violence and drugs, develop youth leadership, provide pregnancy-prevention activities, encourage/require youth to stay in school for the purpose to graduate high school, and to encourage involvement in higher-education. Total program expenses were 445,619. To provide for basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, etc) through social services, to alleviate stress due to financial difficulties, emergencies, etc on a temporary basis. Total program expenses were 84,337.
$529,991 spentof which $6,500 as grants$120,950 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,390,844.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.4M to $1.6M (−70%).
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: 2017 51% · 2018 57% · 2019 50% · 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 70% · 2023 71% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Brian Nowotny
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $350k → $163k.
14 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 66% · 2019 53% · 2020 42% · 2021 31% · 2022 59% · 2023 60% — 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
38% of DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
72% of DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $943k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,865,476 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ($1,307,617). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $3,865,476 in grants to DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,307,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing