Missouri · Nonprofit
LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC
LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,487 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($59,600). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Lives Under Construction Ranch Inc does
Mission
Luc provides a home for boys who have problems related to the home, peer pressure, or substance abuse. Luc positively impacts the boys' lives by providing a biblically-based family environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Luc assisted 21 boys at a time throughout the year, in the form of food, lodging, education and work programs that build self-esteem and enable them to lead productive lives.
$1,198,926 spentof which $1,071 as grants$304,032 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,198,926.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $4.9M to $5.2M (+5%).
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 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Rodney Jans
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $17k → $17k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 56% · 2019 41% · 2020 79% · 2021 46% · 2022 89% · 2023 56% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
83% of LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC?
- LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC (Missouri) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,487 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($59,600). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $140,487 in grants to LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $59,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH 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.
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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 2017–2025), 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