Iowa · Nonprofit
LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV
LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,033 to it, the largest being BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $561k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $325k
What Life Connections Peer Recovery Serv does
Mission
Create peer-to-peer opportunities in iowa for advancing hope, recovery and wellness for all people; including anyone who has struggled with emotional distress, psychiatric diagnosis, substance abuse, trauma or a variety of other life interrupting challenges.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Ceased weekend operations at recovery center and reduced staff due to limited resources.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
On september 22, 2018, life connections opened the doors to rhonda's house which was the first and only peer-run respite center operating in iowa. Rhonda's house provides a meaningful alternative to locked, in-patient hospitalization for the residents of rural eastern iowa who are experiencing a mental health crisis. During 2022, a new facility of 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms was purchased to serve as rhonda's house. The peer-run respite center provides a safe and welcoming environment for individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis and for individuals who voluntarily choose respite services to restore their well-being. Rhonda's house serves individuals living throughout the five county catchment region of eastern iowa. At rhonda's house, residents receive recovery support services from well-trained peer recovery specialists. Rhonda's house is open and operates seven days a week, 24 hours a day. During 2025, 126 individuals were served at rhonda's house. Rhonda's house secured funding of 350,000.00 for 2025. Service participants are permitted to stay at rhonda's house until they decide they are ready to return home or for a maximum of seven days. A stay at rhonda's house…
$314,597 spent57% of program spendingThe wellness center is a place individuals struggling with emotional distress, psychiatric diagnosis, substance abuse, trauma, and/or a variety of other life-interrupting challenges can receive peer delivered wellness and recovery services. The wellness center initially opened and operated at the dewitt united methodist church. Life connections moved the wellness center on june 21, 2023 to a larger, more accessible location at 1663 lincoln way clinton, ia 52732. The wellness center operates 7 days a week, monday thru friday 4pm to 10pm and saturday and sunday 12pm to 6pm. Life connections has served a total of over 1,500 people in recovery from mental health and substance issues in the wellness center during 2025. The wellness center secured funding of 178,657.00 for 2025. Individuals receive one-to-one and group based peer support sessions. Recreational and socialization activities are offered to counter the self- isolation that can contribute to depression. Formal programs addressing anger management, how to build self-esteem and practical plans for community engagement are available. Certified peer facilitators trained by the copeland center for wellness and recovery conduct…
$237,469 spent43% of program spendingSince 2018, lcprs has accomplished so much. This includes utilizing a house that genesis hospital owned and running a recovery center in a church. Lcprs now owns their own property which includes a five bedroom house and office. Lcprs also leases a two suite property to run the recovery center. Lcprs has served over 808 individuals in the respite house since october 2018, 126 of those being in 2025. Lcprs has served over 8,000 people unduplicated at the recovery center since 2018 and over 1,500 in 2025. Lcprs developed and sustains iowa's largest peer run organization, started and sustains an annual fundraising event since 2024, secured a reliable and well versed fundraising chair, nomination chair and active board president. Lcprs sustained extensive media and social media coverage and sustained approaches with our state senators and representatives.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $552,066.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $41k to $320k (+671%).
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: 2020 3% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV’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. 4 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $1k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PEER RECOVERY SERV’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 PEER RECOVERY SERV leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% 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 PEER RECOVERY SERV.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33 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.
Against its field
LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV?
- LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV (Iowa) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,033 to it, the largest being BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY ($175,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $240,033 in grants to LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV?
- BETTER HEALTH FOUNDATION MELINDA GOWEY is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE CONNECTIONS PEER RECOVERY SERV find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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