Louisiana · Nonprofit
CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC
CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,146 to it, the largest being THE HUEY & ANGELINA WILSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $56k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Connections for Life Inc does
Mission
Connections for life (cfl) is dedicated to helping women and women with dependent children get a new lease on life. Cfl accepts women coming from prison, treatment facilities, battered women's shelters, and other referral agencies as well as women coming in on their own. Cfl asks the residents give cfl a commitment to stay for 12 months because cfl believes that the rehabilitation process will take at least that long to build a solid foundation in their recovery.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Connections for life, inc. Has ceased its program services and thrift store operations. Now cfl's operations focus on the sale of its building and disbursement of funds in further support of its mission. The organization has not liquidated, terminated, or dissolved as of 12/31/2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Human services: connections for life is a transitional housing and re-entry program for women coming from prison and homelessness. Program services include a furnished apartment, transportation, food, clothing, utilities, access to medical and mental health care, job placement assistance and training, adult literacy education as needed, financial management training, family re-unification assistance and access to counseling and substance abuse meetings.
Social enterprise: connections for life operates a thrift store. The store's merchandise is donated by the community and consists primarily of clothing and household items. The thrift store resells the merchandise at a low cost. The store operation is maintained by four employees who are also program participants and other volunteers from the community.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $81,497.
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 2023 to 2024, from $479k to $430k (−10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Karen Stagg
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $56k → $20.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE 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
CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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.
Against its field
CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE 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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE 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 CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC?
- CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,146 to it, the largest being THE HUEY & ANGELINA WILSON FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $56,146 in grants to CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC?
- THE HUEY & ANGELINA WILSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTIONS FOR LIFE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 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