Missouri · Nonprofit
LIVING WELL FOUNDATION
LIVING WELL FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $792,430 to it, the largest being CAPRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($263,649). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $142k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $792k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Living Well Foundation does
Mission
To create healthier individuals and families through experiential learning across the life cycle.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We have watched the explosion of autism in the children that we have served over the decades and have great experience in assisting their growth and development. Those children were considered level 1 on the spectrum. Now we offer for preschool and elementary school children diagnosed at level 2 or 3 on the spectrum week long camps, weekend camps and individual in-person training for parent and child. We have sibling programs as well. We have been able to connect with non-communicative children and helped their parents learn to deal effectively with behaviors. We help parents set up a healthy lifestyle at home and we offer them a community of support with our year-round programming. We also continue to give access to our Camp Jump Start Training App to 1300 campers in the database and have expanded the virtual programming to include these special needs families.
$594,463 spent$63,870 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $594,463.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.4M to $2.7M (−21%).
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 26% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of LIVING WELL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Jean Huelsing
CEO
Board chair
Chris Meitz
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $129k → $34k.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 LIVING WELL 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
LIVING WELL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
45% 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 LIVING WELL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 42% · 2019 54% · 2020 56% · 2021 32% · 2022 44% · 2023 58% — 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 LIVING WELL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
LIVING WELL FOUNDATION draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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
LIVING WELL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVING WELL 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVING WELL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIVING WELL FOUNDATION?
- LIVING WELL FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $792,430 to it, the largest being CAPRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($263,649). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVING WELL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $792,430 in grants to LIVING WELL FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVING WELL FOUNDATION?
- CAPRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $263,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVING WELL FOUNDATION 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 18 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