Missouri · Nonprofit
L-A-D FOUNDATION INC
L-A-D FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,681,733 to it, the largest being LEO DREY PIONEER FOUNDATION ($1,478,483). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
L-A-D FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Associationshared funders
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio match
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $151k → $434k.
From the IRS filings of L-A-D FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
L-A-D FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
88% of L-A-D FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Associationshared fundersNC · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- National Wild Turkey Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Betty Lewis Environmental Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Forest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas O Brown Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- EJK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atira Conservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Page Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samta Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Shine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado State University Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like L-A-D FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for L-A-D FOUNDATION 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 L-A-D FOUNDATION INC?
- L-A-D FOUNDATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,681,733 to it, the largest being LEO DREY PIONEER FOUNDATION ($1,478,483). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does L-A-D FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,681,733 in grants to L-A-D FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of L-A-D FOUNDATION INC?
- LEO DREY PIONEER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,478,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like L-A-D FOUNDATION INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing