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LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION

LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$270k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Life Calling Foundation does

Mission

Life calling seeks to preserve our humanity in the digital age. The Life Calling Foundation aims to alert society to the dangers of unmitigated use of technology and smart devices and create awareness of the power of the user to channel and limit harmful intrusion of smart devices into the personal lives and minds of human beings. Its goal is to help create consciousness of the ramifications of smart devices on human lives and introduce a diverse set of tools and activities, such as, awareness campaigns, art, lectures, and programming aimed to expose the ramifications of the use of technology and smart devices on human psychology, and the impacts and effects on mental health through philosophical and psychological lens, as well as through the lens of addiction and dependency, and the physical impact of technology on the human body. In addition, it aims to offer potential solutions and paths forward to mitigate the damage caused by smart devices and the use of certain technologies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Life calling seeks to preserve our humanity in the digital age, curating programming that helps individuals and communities pause, reflect, and reconnect. At the heart of this work is the four lines of connection foundational framework that identifies four essential dimensions of human connection: connection to self connection to others connection to nature connection to imaginationlife calling socializes this framework through public convenings, workshops, and lectures introducing it as a powerful lens through which to explore human wellbeing in a world of accelerating technological change. The framework is intended to guide life calling's forthcoming immersive exhibitions, creative research, global community partnerships, and storytelling.

    $1,348,451 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2024 Revenue 100 ($759k) Expenses 100 ($761k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2025 Revenue 257 ($2.0M) Expenses 187 ($1.4M) Net assets 902 ($270k)
202120242025
Revenue (257)Expenses (187)Net assets (902)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 2024 to 2025, from $30k to $270k (+802%).

$0
$30k
$270k
202120242025
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.

2021
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,090 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
’21
−$1k
’24
’25
2.3
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed44444
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CALLING FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 CALLING FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve2.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)157% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION

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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION: 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 CALLING FOUNDATION?
LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFE CALLING FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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