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LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC

LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$22k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$-281440
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Life Adoption Services Inc does

Mission

We provide Domestic Adoption, Homestudy, Post Placement, and ICPC services to our California families.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The organization was in a transition year so only a small amount of income was reported and no signifcant service accomplishments were achieved.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($182k) Expenses 100 ($178k)2018 Revenue 119 ($217k) Expenses 132 ($235k)2019 Revenue 3 ($6k) Expenses 10 ($18k)2020 Revenue 12 ($22k) Expenses 14 ($25k)
2017201820192020
Revenue (12)Expenses (14)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 2018 to 2019, from $41k to $5k (−87%).

$13k
$41k
$5k
$5k
2017201820192020
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$19k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$3k
’20
1.9
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.

20172018
Listed44
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC's revenue fell 88% between 2017 and 2020.

Operating margin−11% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−50% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,082 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

Organizations like LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC

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In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC: 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 LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC?
LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFE ADOPTION SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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