Texas · Nonprofit
LEARNING FOR LIFE
LEARNING FOR LIFE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,825 to it, the largest being Learning for Life Foundation ($41,825). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $62k
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Learning for Life does
Mission
Learning for Life is a character education program designed to support schools and community- based organizations in their efforts to prepare youth to successfully handle the complexities of our contemporary society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth Community Service Programs: Administers the development of the basic programs: provides the literature, materials, and techniques, as well as service to local Learning for Life offices; manages the growing volunteer training programs of Learning for Life and handles all national program support. As of December 31, 2024 there were 68,577 youth participants served by 10,116 adult leaders - a grand total participation of 78,693.
$1,561,812 spentof which $43,530 as grants$1,925,285 earned by the program99% of program spendingSTEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) activities that explore the Physics of the outdoor experience and the Engineering that energizes it.
$8,813 spent$27,318 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,570,625.
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 2018 to 2019, from $4.5M to $6.0M (+35%).
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.
4% of LEARNING FOR LIFE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Mark Wiesenhahn
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $19k → $-500.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Boy Scouts of America Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LEARNING FOR LIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of LEARNING 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
LEARNING FOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 LEARNING FOR LIFE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of LEARNING FOR LIFE's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
LEARNING FOR LIFE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LEARNING FOR LIFE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $238 on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$238
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 LEARNING 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Boy Scouts of America · exempt
- National Boy Scouts of America Foundation · exempt
- Learning for Life Foundation · exempt
- Arrow WV Inc · exempt
- BSA Commingled Endowment LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEARNING 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 LEARNING FOR LIFE?
- LEARNING FOR LIFE (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,825 to it, the largest being Learning for Life Foundation ($41,825). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEARNING FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $61,825 in grants to LEARNING FOR LIFE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEARNING FOR LIFE?
- Learning for Life Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $41,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEARNING FOR LIFE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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