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LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC

LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being BOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$38k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$44k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Life and Work Connections Inc does

Mission

To provide services to individuals with developmental disabilities including providing employment opportunities and training as well as affordable housing support for persons with special needs

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provided employment training and opportunities to boone county family resources cilents in a supported employment type environment

    $36,448 spent$38,436 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $36,448.

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 ($681k) Expenses 100 ($236k) Net assets 100 ($448k)2018 Revenue 9 ($59k) Expenses 210 ($497k) Net assets 2 ($10k)2021 Revenue 6 ($43k) Expenses 20 ($47k) Net assets 8 ($37k)2022 Revenue 5 ($34k) Expenses 16 ($38k) Net assets 7 ($33k)2023 Revenue 5 ($37k) Expenses 14 ($32k) Net assets 9 ($38k)2024 Revenue 4 ($29k) Expenses 11 ($25k) Net assets 9 ($42k)2025 Revenue 6 ($38k) Expenses 15 ($36k) Net assets 10 ($44k)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (6)Expenses (15)Net assets (10)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 $450k to $13k (−97%).

$450k
$13k
$45k
$37k
$39k
$42k
$44k
2017201820212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 69% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,508 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$445k
’17
−$438k
’18
−$5k
’21
−$5k
’22
$5k
’23
$3k
’24
$2k
’25
13
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.

Chief executive

Laura Cravens

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820212022202320242025
Listed11111216131415
Joined·+1·+4+0+1+4
No longer listed·1·0303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS 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.

Where its funders are

100% of LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC's revenue fell 94% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve12.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 employment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS 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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Boone County Family Resources · exempt
  • Life and Work Connections Affordable Housing LLC · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS 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 LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC?
LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being BOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST ($7,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC?
BOONE COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC 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.

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 1 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