New Jersey · Nonprofit
Inspire Life
Inspire Life (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,422 to it, the largest being THE JAY AND LINDA GRUNIN FOUNDATION D/B/A GRUNIN FOUNDATION ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $262k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $92k
What Inspire Life does
Mission
Inspire Lifes missions is to empower youth and families to pursue purpose, professions, and positive choices
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promotes education, STEM, literacy, film, and the fine arts.
$202,457 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,457.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $4k to $57k (+1487%).
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.
100% of Inspire Life’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Semaj Vanzant
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Inspire Life’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
Inspire Life leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
97% of Inspire Life's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
Inspire Life runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,705 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,705 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Inspire Life receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $252k on record.
- GRANT IN AID$120k
- TRUST FUND$88k
- DEDICATED$40k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Inspire 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Inspire 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 Inspire Life?
- Inspire Life (New Jersey) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $197,422 to it, the largest being THE JAY AND LINDA GRUNIN FOUNDATION D/B/A GRUNIN FOUNDATION ($120,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Inspire Life have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $197,422 in grants to Inspire Life, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Inspire Life?
- THE JAY AND LINDA GRUNIN FOUNDATION D/B/A GRUNIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Inspire Life find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2022–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing