Georgia · Nonprofit
COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED
COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,436,730 to it, the largest being THE GIFT OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ($664,867). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $587k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $968k
What Courage for Life Incorporated does
Mission
Organization's mission: courage for life exists to encourage individuals to embrace their god-given courage for life. We create emotional health, spiritual growth, and bible study resources to disciple individuals to grow in their relationships with god and others. We desire to serve anyone who aspires to live the abundant life god intended for them with specific focus on incarcerated individuals, those who have experienced trauma, abuse, and addiction, and anyone who desires to grow in their relationship with god.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Digital discipleship programming: courage for life provides our digital discipleship programming at no cost to our online community. Anyone who desires to grow in their relationship with god may (1) listen to the courage for life all-female-voiced audio bible in english and spanish on the courage for life app. (2) watch our in-depth bible studies, emotional health, and spiritual growth studies on our courage for life app, our youtube channel, our website, or on intouch+ network. (3) watch the gospel videos which is a dramatization using the courage for life audio bible. (4) read our blogs supporting emotional health and spiritual growth. (5) subscribe to our digital devotionals exploring spiritual growth and bible topics. (6) connect with us through prayer and (7) follow us on instagram @godgivescourage for biblical encouragement. Additionally, you can find courage for life audio bible on other platforms: youversion app, pando app, filament app, and megavoice devices. Courage for life's digital discipleship programming is a collection of biblical resources to offer comfort, encouragement, inspiration, and hope to those who want to embrace their god-given courage for life.
$211,161 spent$72,790 earned by the program66% of program spendingPrison ministry program: courage for life's prison ministry provides resources at no cost to incarcerated individuals, the prisons, jails, chaplains, or volunteers serving the incarcerated. Through our prison ministry, we offer incarcerated men and women opportunities to participate in our in-person discipleship classes utilizing our courage for my life resources (workbooks, dvds, and study bibles). We are committed to measuring the impact of our ministry and the effectiveness of our resources. We use pre- and post-questionnaires to assess participants' emotional and spiritual growth which provides their emotional and spiritual state at the outset and gauge the program's impact on their lives after completion. Our prison ministry program provides incarcerated men and women with the discipleship resources they need to grow emotionally and spiritually, no matter their circumstances. Additionally, we provide incarcerated men and women with access to courage for life's audio bible in english and spanish as well as our video bible studies via department of corrections state-issued inmate tablets. We support ongoing discipleship of incarcerated men and women by resourcing and equipping…
$96,904 spent30% of program spendingSpiritual growth and bible study print resources: courage for life produces print resources for individuals to growth spiritually and pursue emotional healing. These resources are available for anyone who wants to go deeper in their relationship with god. The courage for life study for men and the courage for life study bible for women are unlike any other study bible on the market, featuring a bible study on every page, reflection questions, encouraging faith profiles, a topical index, easy-to-read new living translation, a unique discipleship path through the bible based on the seven courage steps of courage for life, and access to a suite of digital resources including audio bible through the filament bible app. Visit https://courageforlife.org/study-bible/ to explore all the study bible features. Other courage for life resources include books, devotionals, and workbooks, designed to support spiritual growth. Courage for life's spiritual growth and bible study print resources are available at https://courageforlife.org/store/ our prayer is that you find these resources helpful for your own spiritual growth and faith journey.
$11,027 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $319,092.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $485k to $808k (+66%).
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.
86% of COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED’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. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $21k → $274k.
8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED’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
COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 89% · 2021 50% · 2022 65% · 2023 79% — 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
75% of COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
77% of COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED: 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 COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED?
- COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED (Georgia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,436,730 to it, the largest being THE GIFT OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC ($664,867). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,436,730 in grants to COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED?
- THE GIFT OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $664,867 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COURAGE FOR LIFE INCORPORATED 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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