Missouri · Nonprofit
Ladue Education Foundation
Ladue Education Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,625 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($137,012). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $475k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $475k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Ladue Education Foundation does
Mission
See Schedule OThe Mission of the Ladue Education Foundation is to advance the excellence of the Ladue School District by expanding opportunities for student success. We connect philanthropy with education to provide for world-class academic and enrichment opportunities, bringing together a community united in its belief in public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
District Grants: Grants made to support the staff and students in the Ladue School District. This year this included: Casey's Creative Studio, Dogs on Duty, Construction Innovations, 6th Grade Camp Scholarships, Meachum Scholars Program, ETC Lighting Console for the Black Box Theater, Expanding Robotics Program at LMS and LHWHS, FACS Service Learning Project, Sound System for the Middle School Theatre Program, Biodiversity in the Backyard, Construction Technology, TerraCycle Zero Waste Box, Bobby Norfolk Storyteller visit, Spoede Outdoor Learning Center, OB Sensory Graden, Starlab: Portable Planetarium, Restricted Grants
$451,304 spentof which $426,576 as grants100% of program spending"Center for Advanced Studies (CAPS): Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) programs are nationally recognized, innovative high school programs. Students fast forward into their future and are fully immersed in a professional culture, solving real world problems, using industry standard tools and are mentored by actual employers, all while receiving high school and college credit. CAPS is an example of how business, community and public education can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the workforce of tomorrow, especially in high skill, high demand jobs. (See addtional info on Schedule O) CAPS programs focus on:1. Profession-based Learning2. Responsiveness3. Self-Discovery and Exploration4. Professional Skills Development5. Entrepreneurial Mindset"
West Campus Plaza Capital Campaign - The proposed West Campus Plaza, to be located near the athletic fields behind the Ladue Fifth Grade Center and is planned to include: Permanenet retrooms, covered area with permanent seating, vending machines, drinking fountain / water bottle filler, donor recognition plaque, and coaches corner recognition plaque.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $451,304.
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 $319k to $1.3M (+319%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Ladue Education Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Julie Ferrie
Executive Director
Board chair
Emily Haas
Communications Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $45k → $37k.
9 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Ladue Education Foundation’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
Ladue Education Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 Ladue Education Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 51% · 2019 77% · 2020 80% · 2021 50% · 2022 44% · 2023 44% — 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 Ladue Education Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
63% of Ladue Education Foundation'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 $177k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Ladue Education Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ladue Education Foundation
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ladue Education Foundation: 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 Ladue Education Foundation?
- Ladue Education Foundation (Missouri) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $474,625 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($137,012). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ladue Education Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $474,625 in grants to Ladue Education Foundation, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ladue Education Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $137,012 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ladue Education Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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