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ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC

ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being HEAVY CONSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE GRTR KC AREA INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$83k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Economic Lifelines Inc does

Mission

The organization utilizes member dues to present educational programs in the area of public transportation to legislative and government officials.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Educational programs designed to provide information about public transportation to kansas legislators, their staff, and other government officials.

    $112,462 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $112,462.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($111k) Expenses 100 ($107k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2019 Revenue 136 ($152k) Expenses 103 ($109k) Net assets 245 ($71k)2020 Revenue 102 ($113k) Expenses 116 ($124k) Net assets 208 ($61k)2021 Revenue 90 ($100k) Expenses 103 ($109k) Net assets 178 ($52k)2022 Revenue 91 ($102k) Expenses 89 ($95k) Net assets 201 ($59k)2023 Revenue 101 ($112k) Expenses 97 ($103k) Net assets 231 ($68k)2024 Revenue 109 ($121k) Expenses 102 ($109k) Net assets 273 ($80k)2025 Revenue 104 ($116k) Expenses 105 ($112k) Net assets 284 ($83k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (105)Net assets (284)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $29k to $85k (+190%).

$29k
$85k
$71k
$61k
$66k
$78k
$80k
$91k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’18
$42k
’19
−$11k
’20
−$9k
’21
$7k
’22
$9k
’23
$12k
’24
$3k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Paul Davis

Co-chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

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 ECONOMIC LIFELINES 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.

Where its funders are

ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state in all.

MO

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

Organizations like ECONOMIC LIFELINES 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 Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECONOMIC LIFELINES 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 ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC?
ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being HEAVY CONSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE GRTR KC AREA INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC.
Who is the largest funder of ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC?
HEAVY CONSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE GRTR KC AREA INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT FUND 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 ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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