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Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc

Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,262 to it, the largest being THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ($32,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$7.5M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$133k
Net assets
$6.1M
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc does

Mission

Lafayette Preparatory Academy is a community that prepares all students for academic and collegiate success, equipping them to enter the world as active, responsible, and involved citizens and leaders.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of a charter school providing educational services for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in the City of St. Louis.

    $5,040,652 spent$292,417 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,040,652.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($585k)2018 Revenue 121 ($3.0M) Expenses 123 ($2.8M) Net assets 133 ($779k)2019 Revenue 146 ($3.6M) Expenses 137 ($3.1M) Net assets 215 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 179 ($4.4M) Expenses 166 ($3.7M) Net assets 324 ($1.9M)2021 Revenue 188 ($4.6M) Expenses 186 ($4.2M) Net assets 395 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 210 ($5.1M) Expenses 210 ($4.7M) Net assets 462 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 246 ($6.0M) Expenses 216 ($4.9M) Net assets 659 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 249 ($6.1M) Expenses 243 ($5.5M) Net assets 762 ($4.5M)2025 Revenue 309 ($7.5M) Expenses 262 ($5.9M) Net assets 1045 ($6.1M)
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Revenue (309)Expenses (262)Net assets (1045)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $3.7M (+172%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$3.7M
$4.1M
$4.4M
$5.4M
$6.0M
$7.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 96% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 94% · 2024 91% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$195k
’17
$194k
’18
$481k
’19
$635k
’20
$418k
’21
$391k
’22
$1.2M
’23
$604k
’24
$1.7M
’25
12
months of
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

Sarah Ranney

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed776878778
Joined·+0+1+2+0+2+0+1+2
No longer listed·02011111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $27k.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Lafayette Preparatory Academy 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

Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

61% 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 Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc.

25%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 77% · 2021 50% · 2022 52% · 2023 94% — 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

25% of Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

100% of Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve11.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Lafayette Preparatory Academy 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Lafayette Preparatory Academy Foundation LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc?
Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $133,262 to it, the largest being THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ($32,750). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $133,262 in grants to Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lafayette Preparatory Academy Inc?
THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lafayette Preparatory Academy 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.

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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 10 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