Georgia · Nonprofit
CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC
CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,019 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($87,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $465k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $196k
- Net assets
- $698k
What Chosen for Life Ministries Inc does
Mission
Chosen for life ministries helps churches, communities, and families care well for foster and adopted children. Our vision is that everyone will find their role in caring for foster, adopted, and vulnerable children. We work to this goal through our three programs: support through education, adoption and foster care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Foster care support: we seek to educate, equip, and support churches to care for vulnerable children and families throughout dfcs region 5. Through local church partnership, foster families receive ongoing, wrap-around support from teams of volunteers. We provide free access to immediate needs through a donation-led clothing closet for foster children. We provide care packages, including a monogrammed towel, duffel bag, and pillowcase to children entering care.
$190,199 spent$24,319 earned by the program48% of program spendingAdoption support: we offer an adoption assistance grant for adopting families to provide financial support. In addition, we offer adoption support services to local families.
$113,461 spentof which $60,060 as grants$1,546 earned by the program28% of program spendingEducation support: we believe families can parent better with more access to knowledge and resources. With this in mind, we provide education opportunities for foster and adoptive parents, as well as those interested in fostering or adopting. We provide an annual conference and workshop opportunities.
$94,924 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,584.
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 2019 to 2020, from $510k to $612k (+20%).
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.
79% of CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Rachele Gibson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $15k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES 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
CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 38% · 2021 79% · 2022 70% · 2023 78% — 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
43% of CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
62% of CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC'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 $74k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k 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
CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES 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.
In Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC: 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 CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC?
- CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC (Georgia) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,019 to it, the largest being Athens Area Community Foundation Inc ($87,100). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $196,019 in grants to CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC?
- Athens Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $87,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHOSEN FOR LIFE MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing