Indiana · Nonprofit
LOST SPARROWS INC
LOST SPARROWS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,367 to it, the largest being KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($102,105). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $223k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $291k
- Net assets
- $122k
What Lost Sparrows Inc does
Mission
Advocating for the worth and potential of every child, lost sparrows works to empower and equip families, caregivers and communities to love, nurture, and protect vulnerable children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, lost sparrows continued to fulfill its mission to empower and equip families, caregivers and communities to love, nurture, and protect vulnerable children. We did this through providing trauma informed training for many local families and organizations, including churches, schools, and foster licensing agencies. We also provided monthly support group meetings for dozens of families from across northern indiana. 2025 also saw our trauma conference evolve into the healing childhood trauma conference. The conference was attended by over 300 people looking to heal their own history of trauma or learn more about supporting children with trauma. Our keynote speakers were peter mutabazi and dr. Shannae anderson. Post conference surveys showed 96% of attendees felt better prepared to help others that had been impacted by trauma, and rated the conference 4.87 / 5 stars overall. One attendee stated I try to come every year it not only helps me grow professionally so I can better support my students, but I also find personal healing each time I attend. Thank you
$122,889 spent$45,506 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $122,889.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $93k to $52k (−44%).
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: 2024 6% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of LOST SPARROWS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Marla Schlatter
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $54k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LOST SPARROWS 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
LOST SPARROWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 LOST SPARROWS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 37% · 2021 49% · 2022 39% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of LOST SPARROWS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
72% of LOST SPARROWS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k 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
LOST SPARROWS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOST SPARROWS 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 LOST SPARROWS 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 LOST SPARROWS INC?
- LOST SPARROWS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,367 to it, the largest being KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($102,105). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOST SPARROWS INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $291,367 in grants to LOST SPARROWS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOST SPARROWS INC?
- KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $102,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOST SPARROWS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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