Florida · Nonprofit
LASTING FRIENDS INC
LASTING FRIENDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,094,364 to it, the largest being The Ruckstuhl Foundation ($974,865). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $86k
What Lasting Friends Inc does
Mission
To support charitable organizations and groups in developing countries, especially nicaragua, and in the us undertaking educational and other enabling projects primarily to benefit the poor
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Enabled the protection and distribution of funds belonging to non-profit organizations in nicaragua and made grants to nicaraguan groups to support educational programs designed to benefit the poor, high-risk youth and women.
$136,304 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $136,304.
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 2020 to 2021, from $157k to $645k (+312%).
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.
79% of LASTING FRIENDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $58k → $256.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LASTING FRIENDS 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
LASTING FRIENDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2018 91% · 2019 87% · 2020 67% · 2021 93% · 2022 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of LASTING FRIENDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 FY2022, 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
LASTING FRIENDS INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
LASTING FRIENDS INC's revenue fell 86% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,793 international nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LASTING FRIENDS 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
25%
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 LASTING FRIENDS 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 LASTING FRIENDS INC?
- LASTING FRIENDS INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,094,364 to it, the largest being The Ruckstuhl Foundation ($974,865). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LASTING FRIENDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,094,364 in grants to LASTING FRIENDS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LASTING FRIENDS INC?
- The Ruckstuhl Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $974,865 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LASTING FRIENDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 8 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