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HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION

HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $770,850 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($271,600). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$771k
Net assets
$577k
8/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Happy Life Children's Home Inc Dba Happy Life Mission does

Mission

Providing the abandoned children of kenya with a home and a hope for adoption.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Food, clothing, housing, education, and medical care provided to orphaned children in kenya. There were 154 children at the home on december 31, 2024 and 161 children on december 31, 2023. There were 12 adopted in 2024 and 16 adopted in 2023,along with 27 children reunited with their families in 2024 and 20 in 2023. Happy life christian school has 406 students at december 31, 2024 and had 560 students at december 31, 2023. The jesse kay children's hospital offered treatment to 11,946 patients in 2024 and 14,334 patients in 2023.

    $1,124,658 spentof which $1,124,658 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,124,658.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($477k)2021 Revenue 96 ($1.3M) Expenses 124 ($1.3M) Net assets 102 ($485k)2022 Revenue 159 ($2.1M) Expenses 135 ($1.4M) Net assets 255 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 82 ($1.1M) Expenses 166 ($1.7M) Net assets 130 ($620k)2024 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.1M) Net assets 121 ($577k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (84)Expenses (113)Net assets (121)Peer revenue range

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 $485k to $1.2M (+151%).

$477k
$485k
$1.2M
$620k
$577k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$302k
’20
$8k
’21
$732k
’22
−$596k
’23
−$43k
’24
6.0
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1010101212
Joined·+0+0+2+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $117k → $146k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION’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

HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

75% 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 HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION.

35%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 60% · 2019 71% · 2020 80% · 2021 55% · 2022 52% · 2023 59% — broadly stable.

“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

71% of HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION'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 $191k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.

CA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $580k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION is better cushioned than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
58%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION?
HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $770,850 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($271,600). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $770,850 in grants to HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $271,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAPPY LIFE CHILDREN'S HOME INC DBA HAPPY LIFE MISSION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 9 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