Missouri · Nonprofit
THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION
THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,583,218 to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($4,471,470). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What The Little Bit Foundation does
Mission
The mission of The Little Bit Foundation is to break down barriers to learning for under-resourced students through partnerships and programs that serve the needs of the whole child and provide access to essential services and educational experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fills unmet needs in st. Louis schools by providing for the essentials students lack but require for academic success. Food insecurity, undiagnosed health conditions, lack of winter clothing, proper hygiene and insufficient reading material in the home are all examples of barriers that inhibit student attendance, classroom engagement and performance, and are addressed by little bit. Embedded in school communities, with volunteers that work one-on-one with students across every grade level, we ensure they are healthy, confident and ready to learn. We also enrich the learning environment with programs not readily available to underserved students that expand their world knowledge, such as stem and career planning. The results are students better equipped to succeed in today's society.
$4,312,733 spentof which $1,336,193 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,312,733.
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 2020 to 2021, from $7.9M to $10M (+31%).
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 4% · 2022 0% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Miranda Walker Jones
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $667k → $2.2M.
17 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 funders by total. 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
THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
44% 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 THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 35% · 2019 36% · 2020 34% · 2021 40% · 2022 12% · 2023 28% — 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
43% of THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION'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
THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LITTLE BIT 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 THE LITTLE BIT 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 THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION?
- THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,583,218 to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($4,471,470). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $15,583,218 in grants to THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION?
- The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,471,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LITTLE BIT 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.
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 136 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing