Missouri · Nonprofit
LitShop
LitShop (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,704 to it, the largest being THE LABCORP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $130k
What LitShop does
Mission
LitShop provides after-school and summer programming that pairs engaging literacy opportunities with building and making. By intentionally creating a supportive space where girls and gender-expansive youth can take risks, explore creatively, build skills, and connect with other youth, LitShop fosters leadership and confidence our students can use through adolescence and early adulthood.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community-Based Afterschool: LitShop community-based afterschool programs are semester-long workshops focusing on literacy and hands-on building and making, including at least one hands-on project and one literacy or writing study. Each program meets once weekly over the course of a semester. Free for participants. 12 participant capacity staffing includes two instructors.
$68,425 spentof which $95,440 as grants66% of program spendingSummer Programs: LitShop summer programs are weeks-long workshops focusing on literacy and hands-on building and making, including at least one hands-on project and one literacy study or writing project. Free and open to the community with a capacity of 12 participants staffing includes two instructors.
$34,214 spentof which $47,720 as grants33% of program spendingSchool-Based Afterschool: LitShop school-based afterschool programs each focus on one school-partner site. Each program meets once weekly over the course of a semester. Free for participants. 15 participant capacity, must attend partner school. Staffing includes two instructors, preferably one school staff member.
$1,220 spentof which $10,000 as grants1% of program spendingPop-Up: LitShop program that meets one-time for a special event. Pop-ups may be commissioned by an organization, held in collaboration with an organization, or may be coordinated for a specific student group. Staffing and capacity varies based on the event. Can be fee-based depending on partnering organization.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,859.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $158k (+2546%).
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: 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LitShop’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $38 → $40k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LitShop’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
LitShop has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 LitShop.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 99% · 2023 25% — 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
50% of LitShop's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% 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
69% of LitShop's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LitShop runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LitShop
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LitShop: 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 LitShop?
- LitShop (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,704 to it, the largest being THE LABCORP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LitShop have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $101,704 in grants to LitShop, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LitShop?
- THE LABCORP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LitShop 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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