Arizona · Nonprofit
INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA
INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA (Arizona) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,989,531 to it, the largest being The Leppien Foundation ($700,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Intentional Life Media does
Mission
Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Intentional Life Media (ilm) is the parent ministry of family life radio and intentional living. Our mission at Intentional Life Media is to see individuals, families, churches, and nations transformed through living an intentional life in christ. Family life radio is a network of 36 christian radio signals reaching more than 18 million people across our broadcast markets. Our listener-supported ministry will celebrate 60 years of ministry in may 2026. Intentional living is a ministry of ilm centered around the flagship program, intentional living with dr. Randy carlson. The ministry includes a daily radio program, podcast, videos, and blog content, all designed to help people grow closer to god and live a life that is pleasing to christ. Intentional Life Media operates in accordance with a statement of faith, which serves as the biblical foundation for everything we do. This statement outlines the guiding principles that shape our ministry and is available online at: www.myflr.org and www.theintentionallife.com.
$9,867,855 spent$401,585 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,867,855.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $4.2M to $27M (+542%).
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.
93% of INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% 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.
Board chair
Randy L Carlson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $106k → $540k.
14 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 56% · 2019 37% · 2020 41% · 2021 31% · 2022 53% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“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
47% of INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
58% of INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA'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 $840k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 119 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 religion nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Intentional Life Events · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA: 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 INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA?
- INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA (Arizona) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,989,531 to it, the largest being The Leppien Foundation ($700,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,989,531 in grants to INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA?
- The Leppien Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTENTIONAL LIFE MEDIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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