Minnesota · Nonprofit
Life Connections
Life Connections (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,458 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($52,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $202k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $320k
What Life Connections does
Mission
Provide emotional, educational, and material support to families in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In june/july of 2025 our organization assumed responsibilities for the programs, assets, and operations of safe families, a seperate nonprofit group. We did this to ensure the continuation of safe families; charitable mission.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We received 3,794 visits for clothing, we provided 1,318 clients with diapers and other supplies for baby care, 2,112 received clothing, and 189 families received formula, 32 received layettes. We have a weekly support group called momtalk with 348 visits by moms. In addition we hosted 12 individual parenting classes and other support groups. Our volunteers contributed 2,189 hours of their time.our goal is to promote healthy pregnancies and families.
$117,261 spent$140,487 earned by the program42% of program spendingSafe Families for Children (SFFC) exists to practice radical hospilitality, disruptive generosity, and intentional compassion within local communities, addressing the challenges of social isolation, limited access to resources, and potential stress that often Lead to foster care and family separation.We provide innovative, evidence-based and a Family-First-approved approach that supports parents by connecting them to a caring network of relationships and resources before child welfare involvement becomes necessary.Safe Families became a part of Life Connections in July of 2025. Since that time we have served 38 families. Volunteers contributed 2,941 hours.
$102,969 spent$54,279 earned by the program37% of program spendingEmergency assistance in the form of payments for childcare, car payments, rental help, car insurance, utility payments.additional emergency assistance offered with gas cards, food cards, and bus passes74 clients received this aid.our long term goal is to increase self sufficiency of our clients through individualized case management.
$17,868 spent6% of program spendingServed as fiscal host for douglas county early childhood initiative (eci). The eci is a group of agencies who support children from prenatal to age 8. The group focuses on early childhood services including literacy, dental health, and building community awareness.they sponsored community outreach activities, literacy projects, and hosted an event celebrating childcare providers.
$16,690 spent$13,541 earned by the program6% of program spendingServed as fiscal host for the child abuse prevention council (capc)the capc serves to support organizations that work to reduce child abuse.capc awareded eight $1,628 grants to organizations working to address the major causes of child abuse.
$13,024 spentof which $13,024 as grants$10,817 earned by the program5% of program spending65 clients received car seats and/or car seat education. 53 clients received safe sleep equipment and/or education. Our goal is to reduce infant mortality through education and the provision of life-saving equipment.
$10,494 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $278,306.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $155k to $250k (+61%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 52% · 2023 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of Life Connections’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $42k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 Connections’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 Connections leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Connections.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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.
Where its funders are
Life Connections draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Life Connections holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Life Connections
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Life Connections: 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 Connections?
- Life Connections (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,458 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($52,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Life Connections have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $147,458 in grants to Life Connections, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Life Connections?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Life Connections find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2021–2024), 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