California · Nonprofit
BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES
BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $803,735 to it, the largest being HORST RECHELBACHER FOUNDATION ($310,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $804k
- Net assets
- $680k
What Beauty Changes Lives does
Mission
To support individuals pursuing careers in the beauty and wellness industry by providing scholarship assistance,mentorship opportunities,entrepreneurial grants,and advancing initiatives that elevate and inspire the profession through charitable and educational programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Beauty Changes Lives provides scholarship and educational opportunities for beauty and wellness professionals.to do this we operate the website, www.beautychangeslives.org,a comprehensive portal where prospective students and professionals can apply for various scholarships and mentorship programs and opportunities to help advance their careers. Through this platform,we transform perception about careers in beauty and wellness and raise awareness of the variety of opportunities available to professionals.
$1,072,079 spentof which $439,937 as grants100% of program spendingBeauty Changes Lives also hosts community and educational events throughout the year that bring beauty and wellness professionals together.these events showcase scholarship and program opportunities,foster collaboration,volunteerism,and support among peers while celebrating the profession and elevating the industry.many individuals and companies generously donate their time and talent to make these community events possible.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,072,079.
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 $888k to $605k (−32%).
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.
99% of BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lisa Roeberg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $42k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES’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
BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 94% · 2019 69% · 2020 79% · 2021 92% · 2022 60% · 2023 72% — 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
40% of BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: 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 BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES?
- BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $803,735 to it, the largest being HORST RECHELBACHER FOUNDATION ($310,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $803,735 in grants to BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES?
- HORST RECHELBACHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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