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LIFE ASSET INC

LIFE ASSET INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,174 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.6M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$5.8M
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Life Asset Inc does

Mission

The mission of life asset is to help alleviate poverty in the greater washington, dc area, by empowering people through affordable financial products, services, and education, thereby promoting self-help and self- respect and expanding social and economic opportunities for lower income residents.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided business training to over 4,500 low-income entrepreneurs during 2024; originated 646 microloans to low-income entrepreneurs during 2024 with a total of 1279 active loans as of december 31, 2024 to help them start/expand their own businesses.

    $989,559 spent$212,274 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $989,559.

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 ($490k) Expenses 100 ($443k) Net assets 100 ($451k)2018 Revenue 232 ($1.1M) Expenses 156 ($691k) Net assets 199 ($898k)2019 Revenue 229 ($1.1M) Expenses 163 ($722k) Net assets 288 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 343 ($1.7M) Expenses 278 ($1.2M) Net assets 387 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 603 ($3.0M) Expenses 243 ($1.1M) Net assets 804 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 484 ($2.4M) Expenses 294 ($1.3M) Net assets 1041 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 426 ($2.1M) Expenses 302 ($1.3M) Net assets 1207 ($5.4M)2024 Revenue 335 ($1.6M) Expenses 289 ($1.3M) Net assets 1288 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (335)Expenses (289)Net assets (1288)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 2020 to 2021, from $3.9M to $6.5M (+65%).

$1.2M
$2.3M
$3.0M
$3.9M
$6.5M
$6.9M
$9.4M
$9.1M
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 64% · 2020 74% · 2021 67% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of LIFE ASSET INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
$447k
’18
$399k
’19
$449k
’20
$1.9M
’21
$1.1M
’22
$750k
’23
$362k
’24
53
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.

Chief executive

Jan Markus Larsson

Executive director

Board chair

Olive Idehen

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed86666555
Joined·+0+2+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·2200101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $55k → $45k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LIFE ASSET INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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

LIFE ASSET INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

38% 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 LIFE ASSET INC.

41%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 72% · 2022 38% · 2023 78% — 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

50% of LIFE ASSET INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

LIFE ASSET INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.

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NY
MD
NC
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIFE ASSET INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve53.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding LIFE ASSET INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record — $6.6M federal, $150k state.

Federal$6.6M
grants $6.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of the Treasury$4.2M
  • Small Business Administration$2.4M
State$150k
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Top programs
  • Loan$150k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 14%Fundraising 9%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE ASSET 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 ASSET INC?
LIFE ASSET INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,209,174 to it, the largest being CITI FOUNDATION ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFE ASSET INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,209,174 in grants to LIFE ASSET INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE ASSET INC?
CITI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFE ASSET INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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