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ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE

ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,047 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($34,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$229k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$57k
Net assets
$162k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Achieving My Best Life does

Mission

Achieving My Best Life; an illinois non-profit organization, has a powerful mission: to support the on-going needs of individuals with intellectual, cognitive and/or developmental disabilities to have gainful access to their best life. Specifically, Achieving My Best Life (ambl) endeavors to provide opportunities to access independent living, gainful employment, as well as positive community access for neuro-diverse individuals.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide gainful access to independent living for those individuals with intellectual, cognitive and/or developmental disabilities. Supplemented living expenses for two individuals for 5 months in 2023.

    $9,642 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. Provide transportation to allow access to gainful employement for those individuals with intellectual, cognitive and/or developmental disabilities. Transportation provided indidvuals to place of employement and back to residence.

    $2,320 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,962.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($92k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($65k)2024 Revenue 250 ($229k) Expenses 501 ($133k) Net assets 248 ($162k)
20232024
Revenue (250)Expenses (501)Net assets (248)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 $65k to $162k (+148%).

$65k
$162k
20232024
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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

113% of ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$65k
’23
$97k
’24
13
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.

Board chair

William Hubble

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE’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

ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE.

60%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

96% of ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.

IL
NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)150% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE

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In Illinois

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE: 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 ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE?
ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,047 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($34,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $57,047 in grants to ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $34,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACHIEVING MY BEST LIFE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), 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