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LOST SPARROWS INC

EIN 82-2751938 WINONA LAKE, IN

Revenue 2025
$223,087
Expenses 2025
$186,849

Program services were 65.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1280
Street
PO BOX 751

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

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.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $122,889 · Revenue $45,506

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • DARREN GAGNON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARLA SCHLATTER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARK WORKMAN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA DETLEFSEN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMY FELDMAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JULIE HARTZLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STAN HARTZLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TODD KOHLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICOLE NORRIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDON SCHMITT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRITTANY STUMP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $223,087
    Expenses
    $186,849
    Contributions
    $181,318
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $262,758
    Expenses
    $228,255
    Contributions
    $161,198
    Grants paid
    $10,004
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $251,018
    Expenses
    $291,968
    Contributions
    $205,673
    Grants paid
    $15,622
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $312,445
    Expenses
    $293,197
    Contributions
    $264,895
    Grants paid
    $38,525

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $193,790
    Expenses
    $168,126
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,422

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Darren Gagnon
Mailing address
PO BOX 751WINONA LAKE IN 46590

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.