Colorado · Nonprofit
Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc
Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,408 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($276,060). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $320k
- Net assets
- $565k
What Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc does
Mission
An international organization that exists to love and nurture orphans, neglected and disadvantaged children and young adults. Its focus is to bring restoration through God's love, allowing children and youth to discover their potential, while equipping and releasing them into their divine destiny and future. LOL is the only orphanage in the Toledo district of Belize. All program development is volunteer driven and supported by donors. No revenue is provided by the government of Belize.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Laugh Out Loud is a children's home operating in the Toledo district of southern Belize. Our goal is to care for, educate and equip our children with life skills that will allow them to flourish.This past year we have:* Enrolled all our school age children in school.* Two of our young adults have earned their bachelor's degree. * One of our young adults attended YWAM.* One teen has been adopted by a loving family's arms.* Laugh Out Loud has completed their fourth foster home on campus, allowing children to live and grow in a family atmosphere of support and love.* The two founders and directors of Laugh Out Loud attended CAFO conference to gain more insights on how to care for children from trauma.* All our children are trained in life skills to further help them succeed when leaving LOL.* LOL provides 3 meals a day, drinking water and healthy snacks for all our children.Laugh Out Loud is the only children's home in southern Belize. It is completely supported and operated by donations and volunteers. This goodness and generosity have allowed us to provide food, shelter, medical and dental care, education and most of all loving support for the children placed in our care.
$511,185 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $511,185.
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 2023 to 2024, from $700k to $570k (−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.
100% of Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $41k → $16k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
96% 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 Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 71% · 2021 74% · 2022 53% · 2023 97% — 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
96% of Laugh Out Loud Ministry 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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $320k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Laugh Out Loud Ministry 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Laugh Out Loud Ministry 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 Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc?
- Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $320,408 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($276,060). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $320,408 in grants to Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $276,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Laugh Out Loud Ministry Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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