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BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND

BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,338 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEAT & FROST INSULATORS & ALLIED WORKERS 50AWIA ($13,338). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$177k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$255k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Breath of Life Charity Fund does

Mission

To educate the public about work related diseases related to asbestos. The organizations primary goal is to donate to organizations that qualify under section 501(c)3 of the internal revenue code whose focus is finding cures for the asbestos related diseases.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To make distributions to organizations that qualify under section 501(c)3 of the internal revenue code, focusing on finding cures and educating the public about work-related diseases related to asbestos.

    $348,116 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $348,116.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($143k) Expenses 100 ($103k) Net assets 100 ($168k)2018 Revenue 95 ($135k) Expenses 92 ($95k) Net assets 124 ($208k)2019 Revenue 83 ($118k) Expenses 113 ($116k) Net assets 125 ($209k)2020 Revenue 17 ($25k) Expenses 44 ($45k) Net assets 113 ($189k)2021 Revenue 117 ($167k) Expenses 77 ($79k) Net assets 166 ($278k)2022 Revenue 85 ($121k) Expenses 51 ($52k) Net assets 207 ($347k)2023 Revenue 124 ($176k) Expenses 90 ($92k) Net assets 257 ($431k)2024 Revenue 116 ($166k) Expenses 159 ($163k) Net assets 259 ($434k)2025 Revenue 124 ($177k) Expenses 347 ($356k) Net assets 152 ($255k)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (347)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $434k to $255k (−41%).

$168k
$208k
$209k
$189k
$278k
$347k
$431k
$434k
$255k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 7,828 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’17
$40k
’18
$2k
’19
−$20k
’20
$89k
’21
$69k
’22
$84k
’23
$3k
’24
−$179k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

From the IRS filings of BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND’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

BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

65% 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 BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND.

47%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
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

65% of BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
MD

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND's revenue grew 24% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−101% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND?
BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,338 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEAT & FROST INSULATORS & ALLIED WORKERS 50AWIA ($13,338). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $28,338 in grants to BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND.
Who is the largest funder of BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND?
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HEAT & FROST INSULATORS & ALLIED WORKERS 50AWIA is the largest funder on record, with $13,338 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BREATH OF LIFE CHARITY FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 3 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