Missouri · Nonprofit
LIFE ARTS INC
LIFE ARTS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,524 to it, the largest being STEWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($653,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $226k
What Life Arts Inc does
Mission
Developing the leaders of today, where they live, using the arts.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Compositions for life:compositions for life is a one on one mentoring program for junior high students of ages 11-14. Students have sessions with music therapy students and practitioners to compose original songs. Sessions include the use of therapeutic songwriting techniques that focus on students' mental and emotional well-being.students of the program were given the opportunity to record their original songs in professional recording studios. Compositions for life program has served 46 students in four local schools. The students have composed 27 songs.
Ap for life:ap for life is an arts residency program that empowers a cohort of creatives with the financial, entrepreneurial, artistic, and social leadership skills and platforms necessary to enrich culture, communities, and their personal purpose.participants were granted a $1,000 stipend for creative empowerment and $250 for an investment stipend to combat lack of access while generating wealth. Likewise, participants were tasked with meeting with a financial advisor, generating a creative project, mentoring and helping life arts programming, and service to the community.
$83,147 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,147.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $373k to $458k (+23%).
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 LIFE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $157k.
From the IRS filings of LIFE ARTS INC’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
LIFE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2020 88% · 2021 83% · 2022 96% — diversifying over time.
“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
20% of LIFE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 13% 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 FY2022, 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
65% of LIFE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Missouri 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
LIFE ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like LIFE ARTS INC
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 LIFE ARTS 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 ARTS INC?
- LIFE ARTS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,044,524 to it, the largest being STEWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($653,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,044,524 in grants to LIFE ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE ARTS INC?
- STEWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $653,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), and the filings of 8 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