Missouri · Nonprofit
L-Life Food Pantry
L-Life Food Pantry (Missouri) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,538 to it, the largest being MHM Support Services ($86,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $85k
What L-Life Food Pantry does
Mission
The organization was formed to distribute food through the feeding America Program to the residents of Laclede County
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Protien Dairy Produce Program, was created to increase both the quality and quantity of nutritious items provided to our clients every time they come in. Our clients can come in every 2 weeks. We served a total of 716 families or 1577 individuals.
$24,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants$14,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingWorkforce Program This program was created to serve working families, who are at work during our Tuesday and Thursday mid day distribution times. We served 59 unduplicated families consisting of 179 unduplicated individuals during this Fiscal Year. Families can come get food every 2 weeks on a Monday evening.
$25,100 spentof which $5,000 as grants$20,100 earned by the program2% of program spendingDiabetic and Homeless Bag Program The diabetic bags contain 8-10 cans of low sodium soup and low-sugar items. The homeless bags contain easy to open containers of high protein food items. We handed out 763 Diabetic bags and 571 Homeless bags.
$17,500 spentof which $5,500 as grants$12,000 earned by the program2% of program spendingGeneral Food Bank
$1,012,468 spent$1,153,852 earned by the program94% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,079,068.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $162k to $100k (−38%).
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 3% · 2026 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of L-Life Food Pantry’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Dean Barker
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $9k → $57k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 L-Life Food Pantry’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-Life Food Pantry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 L-Life Food Pantry.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 35% — 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
50% of L-Life Food Pantry's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
93% of L-Life Food Pantry's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
L-Life Food Pantry has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like L-Life Food Pantry
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
87% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for L-Life Food Pantry: 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-Life Food Pantry?
- L-Life Food Pantry (Missouri) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,538 to it, the largest being MHM Support Services ($86,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does L-Life Food Pantry have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $274,538 in grants to L-Life Food Pantry, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of L-Life Food Pantry?
- MHM Support Services is the largest funder on record, with $86,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like L-Life Food Pantry 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 14 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