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The Foundation For Called Workers

The Foundation For Called Workers (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$125k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45k
Net assets
$1.2M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What The Foundation For Called Workers does

Mission

The awarding of grants by the foundation to called workers of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) to assist with educational loan payments.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The awarding of grants by the foundation to called workers of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) to assist with educational loan payments.

    $429,052 spent$75,543 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $429,052.

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 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($18k)2018 Revenue 1873 ($322k) Expenses 349 ($62k) Net assets 1538 ($278k)2019 Revenue 677 ($116k) Expenses 489 ($87k) Net assets 1702 ($308k)2020 Revenue 754 ($130k) Expenses 576 ($102k) Net assets 1854 ($335k)2021 Revenue 543 ($93k) Expenses 884 ($157k) Net assets 1503 ($272k)2022 Revenue 275 ($47k) Expenses 743 ($132k) Net assets 1035 ($187k)2023 Revenue 507 ($87k) Expenses 308 ($55k) Net assets 1214 ($220k)2024 Revenue 8709 ($1.5M) Expenses 1166 ($207k) Net assets 8349 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 728 ($125k) Expenses 2576 ($457k) Net assets 6514 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (728)Expenses (2576)Net assets (6514)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 2023 to 2024, from $220k to $1.6M (+644%).

$18k
$278k
$308k
$336k
$272k
$187k
$220k
$1.6M
$1.2M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

60% of The Foundation For Called Workers’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,288 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$552
’17
$260k
’18
$30k
’19
$27k
’20
−$63k
’21
−$85k
’22
$32k
’23
$1.3M
’24
−$332k
’25
31
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.

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Listed77788888
Joined·+0+0+3+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0020000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'23
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of The Foundation For Called Workers’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

The Foundation For Called Workers draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state in all.

IN

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

The Foundation For Called Workers holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−265% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve30.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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In Missouri

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Foundation For Called Workers: 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 The Foundation For Called Workers?
The Foundation For Called Workers (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45,000 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($45,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Foundation For Called Workers have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45,000 in grants to The Foundation For Called Workers.
Who is the largest funder of The Foundation For Called Workers?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Foundation For Called Workers 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 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