South Dakota · Nonprofit
THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION
THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,800,896 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($535,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $-7438
What The Lost and Found Association does
Mission
Lost&found delivers comprehensive, data-driven, and resilience-focused suicide prevention and postvention programs and services for youth and young adults (ages 10-34) and their support networks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lost&found student & campus programs increased its impact through south dakota and minnesota services, providing campus chapters, peer2peer mentorship, l&f advocates, and campus resilience index services to 12 colleges and universities. These programs served more than 1000 students, while also providing guidance to five campuses. The leading student program, peer2peer mentorship, helped 98% of program participants achieve personal goals and more than 85% of program participants increase personal resilience. 95% of students engaged in lost&found programs were satisfied with the experience. To support the growth of this program, lost&found engaged in the development of the reachu mobile application to enable more effective program support.
$674,549 spentof which $100,000 as grants$144,799 earned by the program55% of program spendingThrough community training and education programs like lost&found advocates, more than 2500 students, faculty, staff, and community members received mental health and suicide prevention education and resources from lost&found through classroom education and community training programs.
$137,831 spent$23,271 earned by the program11% of program spendingEstablished in late 2021, lost&found's evaluation & research services department provides professional program evaluation services for mental health and suicide prevention programs nationwide, indirectly impacting more than 250,000 people through whom programs are currently serving under federal, state, and foundation grants. This department is responsible for the creation of the resilience index, a suicide prevention capacity measurement tool based upon center for disease control resources.
$307,192 spentof which $145,295 as grants$90,499 earned by the program25% of program spendingCreated through a merger with the nonprofit survivors joining for hope (sj4h) in 2024, lost&found's postvention services department provides direct financial and resource assistance for low-to-moderate income households impacted by suicide death, while also providing guidance to college administrators in establishing suicide death protocol policies and services. Since the department's launch, more than 15 families have been provided over $34,000 in financial resources to navigate suicide loss and defray funeral, grief counseling, and legal expenses.
$97,840 spentof which $34,800 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,217,412.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $190k to $974k (+412%).
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 44% · 2023 17% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $10k → $778k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION’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
THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 57% · 2021 29% · 2022 48% · 2023 37% — 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
56% of THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
51% of THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION'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 $889k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $912k 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.
Against its field
THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION: 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 LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION?
- THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,800,896 to it, the largest being SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($535,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,800,896 in grants to THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION?
- SOUTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $535,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LOST AND FOUND ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 26 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