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A Better Life Foundation USA Inc

A Better Life Foundation USA Inc receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,905 to it, the largest being THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$0
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$67k
Net assets
$0
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What A Better Life Foundation USA Inc does

Mission

A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION USA INC. is organized for the purpose of empowering upward mobility through food security, pathways to employment and community engagement. The first step to upward mobility is food security. A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION USA INC. brings respect to the table by providing nutritious meals to its community members.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Dinner x ABLF -

  2. Sharpen Up. -

  3. Plenty of Plates.

  4. Streams For Dreams

  5. Waste Not Want Not -

  6. Waste Not Want Not - Hudson Valley.

  7. A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION USA INC. is organized for the purpose of empowering upward mobility through food security, pathways to employment and community engagement. The first step to upward mobility is food security. A BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION USA INC. brings respect to the table by providing nutritious meals to its community members.

The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets -217 ($-22746)2019 Revenue 100 ($210k) Expenses 875 ($199k) Net assets -116 ($-12166)2020 Revenue 177 ($371k) Expenses 1609 ($366k) Net assets -71 ($-7418)2021 Revenue 79 ($166k) Expenses 731 ($166k) Net assets -75 ($-7854)2022 Revenue 11 ($23k) Expenses 116 ($26k) Net assets -104 ($-10902)2023 Revenue 13 ($27k) Expenses 26 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($10k)2024 Revenue 0 ($999) Expenses 2 ($467) Net assets 105 ($11k)2025 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 48 ($11k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (0)Expenses (48)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $35k to $0 (−100%).

$12k
$3k
$8k
$6k
$12k
$34k
$35k
$0
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$23k
’18
$11k
’19
$5k
’20
−$720
’21
−$3k
’22
$21k
’23
$532
’24
−$11k
’25
895
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed35555555
Joined·+3+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $37k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
Radical Hope Incunclassified
$20k
funders
2
2

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 A Better Life Foundation USA 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

A Better Life Foundation USA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 A Better Life Foundation USA Inc.

37%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 68% — broadly stable.

“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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like A Better Life Foundation USA 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.

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds A Better Life Foundation USA Inc?
A Better Life Foundation USA Inc receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,905 to it, the largest being THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does A Better Life Foundation USA Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $66,905 in grants to A Better Life Foundation USA Inc.
Who is the largest funder of A Better Life Foundation USA Inc?
THE KROGER CO ZERO HUNGER ZERO WASTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like A Better Life Foundation USA Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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