Washington · Nonprofit
FAILSAFE FOR LIFE
FAILSAFE FOR LIFE (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,397 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $134k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Failsafe for Life does
Mission
Failsafe for Life is a spokane-based non-profit with a mission to end suicide in our community through connection, education, and hope.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our main program is training, which includes qpr workshops, asist workshops, mental health matters, mental health matters and suicide recognition and referral. These trainings all equip participants to recognize the warning signs for when someone may be thinking of suicide, how to have a conversation about suicide, and what the next steps are in making sure they stay safe and get the care they need. Along with these, we have a blog, podcast, engage with people via social media, host kindness campaigns every fall to promote connection, and support other organization's events that coincide with our mission.
$41,837 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,837.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $77k to $102k (+32%).
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.
71% of FAILSAFE FOR LIFE’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 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Sabrina Votava
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $2k → $43k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FAILSAFE FOR LIFE’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
FAILSAFE FOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 FAILSAFE FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 33% · 2022 93% · 2023 46% — 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
80% of FAILSAFE FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 63% 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
90% of FAILSAFE FOR LIFE's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FAILSAFE FOR LIFE has grown faster than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FAILSAFE FOR LIFE
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 Washington
Nationally
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAILSAFE FOR LIFE: 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 FAILSAFE FOR LIFE?
- FAILSAFE FOR LIFE (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $134,397 to it, the largest being PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON ($75,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAILSAFE FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $134,397 in grants to FAILSAFE FOR LIFE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAILSAFE FOR LIFE?
- PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAILSAFE FOR LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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