Missouri · Nonprofit
LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC
LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,177 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $10M
What Lafayette Work Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of lafayette industries is to provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities and to persons with other disabilities who are 18 years or older.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of a sheltered workshop providing full-time employment opportunities for persons with developmental and other disabilities. Develop each individual to achieve their full potential and increase their sense of self-worth and dignity through work while providing quality services to businesses and the community.
$3,138,905 spent$2,388,265 earned by the program89% of program spendingProviding an innovative long-term competitive employement training program that combines classroom training on social, cognitive, and interpersonal skills with hands-on training and experience with select local partner businesses. Utilize advanced technology to further develop participant's problem solving and communication skills.
$378,996 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,517,901.
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 2022 to 2023, from $9.0M to $11M (+19%).
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 41% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 50% · 2021 65% · 2022 50% · 2023 53% · 2024 45% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Robert Libera
Executive director
Board chair
Jenny Merlo
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $663.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 WORK CENTER 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 WORK CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 WORK CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 65% · 2022 65% · 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.
Where its funders are
78% of LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lafayette Industries North Inc · exempt
- Jeffco Subcontracting Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC?
- LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,177 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($75,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $98,177 in grants to LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER INC?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAFAYETTE WORK CENTER 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 7 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