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LIFE CHARITIES INC

LIFE CHARITIES INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,307 to it, the largest being FUND FOR EDUCATION ($156,326). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$435k
Net assets
$88k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Life Charities Inc does

Mission

The organization's mission is to enhance the quality of "life and alleviate the human suffering of human beings by providing humanitarian relief and developmental aid to people who have been marginalized by geography, or harmed by natural disaster, war, armed conflict, physical or mental abuse, or economic deprivation.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. We are a global 9-1-1 volunteer disaster relief organization whereby we:1. Provide medical teams response to remote areas of the world where we build and equip regiional medical clinics in deep jungle communities and provide villagers with safe water.2. Provide volunteer teams to respond to natural and man-made disasters in conflictive zones and provide relief to victims of combat and refugees of war.

    $1,136,834 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,136,834.

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 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($109k)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.1M) Expenses 103 ($1.2M) Net assets 74 ($80k)2019 Revenue 97 ($1.1M) Expenses 95 ($1.1M) Net assets 85 ($92k)2020 Revenue 103 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 104 ($113k)2021 Revenue 107 ($1.2M) Expenses 109 ($1.2M) Net assets 75 ($81k)2022 Revenue 110 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.2M) Net assets 112 ($122k)2023 Revenue 123 ($1.4M) Expenses 124 ($1.4M) Net assets 85 ($92k)2024 Revenue 107 ($1.2M) Expenses 106 ($1.2M) Net assets 81 ($88k)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (106)Net assets (81)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 2021 to 2022, from $81k to $122k (+49%).

$109k
$80k
$92k
$113k
$81k
$122k
$92k
$88k
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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

100% of LIFE CHARITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
−$28k
’18
$12k
’19
$20k
’20
−$31k
’21
$40k
’22
−$29k
’23
−$5k
’24
0.9
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.

Chief executive

Gary Becks

CEO/CFO

Board chair

Steven Prusky

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·0100010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $16k → $56k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CHARITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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 CHARITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

39% 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 CHARITIES INC.

36%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 65% · 2019 56% · 2020 83% · 2021 60% · 2022 47% · 2023 54% — 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

100% of LIFE CHARITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 CHARITIES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

PA
CA
DE
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 CHARITIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LIFE CHARITIES INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE CHARITIES 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 CHARITIES INC?
LIFE CHARITIES INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,307 to it, the largest being FUND FOR EDUCATION ($156,326). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFE CHARITIES INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $435,307 in grants to LIFE CHARITIES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE CHARITIES INC?
FUND FOR EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $156,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFE CHARITIES 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.

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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 11 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