Iowa · Nonprofit
LBA FOUNDATION
LBA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,207 to it, the largest being GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($168,791). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $353k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Lba Foundation does
Mission
The LBA Foundation (Leaders Believers Achievers) exists to assist youth find their purpose and connect with their community so they can build their best life and become model and productive members of our community and nation. We believe every youth can achieve greateness when they connect to their purpose, connect to mentors and community, and connect to a dream they feel is achieveable with the people and resources we bring to support them. We provide mentorship, career exploration, skills building, academic assistance, and evangelize all career pathways equally---college, skilled trades, entrepreneurship, or career readiness with equal vigor.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The LBA Foundation supported over 600 youths across eastern Iowa, primarily in Cedar Rapids and Linn County. Our efforts are centered on helping youths get connected to something that they feel passionate about and then finding resources to help them pursue that goal and dream. We took over 60 youths on business site visits to learn about different jobs and industries, held 4 events in area parks to encourage exploration of green spaces, conducted after school gatherings at local gyms and rec centers where we had over 422 attendees during 2025. During the past year we also assisted 27 at risk youth to achieve their diplomas and helped place 16 students into summer jobs and internships. A big push for our organization was holding seminars where we introduced various careers to our youths so they could realize how many options there truly are to pursue--and these seminars had over 126 attendees. Additionally, we continued our efforts to help remove stigmas around talking about mental health and continued our youth mental wellness circles that had 42 youths participate in for multiple meetings throughout the year.
$26,450 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,450.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $30k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 LBA FOUNDATION’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
LBA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 LBA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 32% · 2022 21% · 2023 67% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of LBA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 FY2023, 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
66% of LBA FOUNDATION'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 $119k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $234k 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
LBA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like LBA FOUNDATION
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 LBA FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LBA FOUNDATION?
- LBA FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $353,207 to it, the largest being GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($168,791). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LBA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $353,207 in grants to LBA FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LBA FOUNDATION?
- GREATER CEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $168,791 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LBA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Lba →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 10 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