Indiana · Nonprofit
LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,424 to it, the largest being THE JAMES FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lawrence County Independent Schools does
Mission
The mission of Lawrence County Independent Schools (lcis) is to inspire each student to reach his or her greatest potential personally and academically in a peaceful rural school learning environment by providing a challenging and a life-focused curriculum. Students enrolled in lcis will develop essential life-long learning skills, critical thinking skills, character-building skills and knowledge to ensure that they will be adequately prepared to achieve success in high school and in an ever- advancing global society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of Lawrence County Independent Schools (lcis) is to inspire each student to reach his or her greatest potential personally and academically in a peaceful rural school learning environment by providing a challenging and a life-focused curriculum. Students enrolled in lcis will develop essential life-long learning skills, critical thinking skills, character-building skills and knowledge to ensure that they will be adequately prepared to achieve success in high school and in an ever- advancing global society.
$2,389,004 spent95% of program spendingThe mission of Lawrence County Independent Schools (lcis) is to inspire each student to reach his or her greatest potential personally and academically in a peaceful rural school learning environment by providing a challenging and a life-focused curriculum. Students enrolled in lcis will develop essential life-long learning skills, critical thinking skills, character-building skills and knowledge to ensure that they will be adequately prepared to achieve success in high school and in an ever- advancing global society.
$134,912 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,523,916.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.0M (+69%).
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: 2021 59% · 2022 93% · 2023 62% · 2024 62% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Kaylee Hoffman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $56 → $1k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS’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
LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
30% 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 LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — 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
100% of LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424 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.
Against its field
LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $64k on record.
- Department of Education$64k
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.
Organizations like LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: 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 LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS?
- LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (Indiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,424 to it, the largest being THE JAMES FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,424 in grants to LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS?
- THE JAMES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAWRENCE COUNTY INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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