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LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI

LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $955 to it, the largest being EUGENE & MARILYN GLICK FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$697k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$955
Net assets
$3.5M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Laura Ingalls Wilder Home Association of Mansfield Missouri does

Mission

To inspire curiosity and foster learning about the american pioneer experience through the life and literature of laura ingalls wilder.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operations of the rocky ridge farm, which includes the most comprehensive ingalls and wilder family collections in the world. The property includes museum artifacts spanning over a century of the lives of the pioneering history described in the "little house" books. In addition, the museum has a section dedicated to the life and career of rose wilder lane. The organization is dedicated to the restoration, preservation, and education of laura ingalls wilder's legacy.

    $523,264 spent$585,263 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $523,264.

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 ($542k) Expenses 100 ($456k) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 117 ($632k) Expenses 97 ($441k) Net assets 106 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 92 ($501k) Expenses 127 ($581k) Net assets 103 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 99 ($538k) Expenses 102 ($466k) Net assets 106 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 108 ($587k) Expenses 122 ($557k) Net assets 107 ($3.3M)2022 Revenue 103 ($557k) Expenses 116 ($530k) Net assets 108 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 125 ($676k) Expenses 139 ($636k) Net assets 109 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 129 ($697k) Expenses 131 ($596k) Net assets 113 ($3.5M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (131)Net assets (113)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 2017 to 2018, from $3.1M to $3.3M (+4%).

$3.1M
$3.3M
$3.2M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.3M
$3.4M
$3.5M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 16% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$86k
’17
$192k
’18
−$80k
’19
$72k
’20
$30k
’21
$26k
’22
$40k
’23
$101k
’24
11
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.

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Listed88999999
Joined·+3+2+1+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·3110100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $157 → $80.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'25*
total
funders
2
1
1
1
1

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI’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

LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

42% 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 LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI.

52%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.

Where its funders are

LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.

IN
CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve10.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $31k on record.

Federal$31k
grants $31kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$31k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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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

10
board members
90%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

74%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI?
LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $955 to it, the largest being EUGENE & MARILYN GLICK FOUNDATION ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $955 in grants to LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI?
EUGENE & MARILYN GLICK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAURA INGALLS WILDER HOME ASSOCIATION OF MANSFIELD MISSOURI 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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