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LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA

LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $225,200 to it, the largest being Gentle Shepherd Charities ($225,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$310k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$225k
Net assets
$2k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Life Center Ministries-Africa does

Mission

Provision of food, medical services, and evangelical ministry to regions of uganda, africa

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($264k) Expenses 100 ($250k) Net assets 100 ($20k)2018 Revenue 95 ($251k) Expenses 108 ($270k) Net assets 6 ($1k)2019 Revenue 117 ($310k) Expenses 124 ($309k) Net assets 9 ($2k)
201720182019
Revenue (117)Expenses (124)Net assets (9)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $20k to $1k (−94%).

$20k
$1k
$2k
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
−$19k
’18
$613
’19
0.1
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.

201720182019
Listed545
Joined·+0+1
No longer listed·10
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'19
total
$225k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA’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 CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

VA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Gentle Shepherd Charities · disregarded
  • Gentle Shepherd Hospice · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA: 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 CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA?
LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $225,200 to it, the largest being Gentle Shepherd Charities ($225,200). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $225,200 in grants to LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA?
Gentle Shepherd Charities is the largest funder on record, with $225,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFE CENTER MINISTRIES-AFRICA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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