Ohio · Nonprofit
LIFE ESSENTIALS INC
LIFE ESSENTIALS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,337 to it, the largest being GREATER DAYTON AREA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ($487,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $415k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $614k
- Net assets
- $0
What Life Essentials Inc does
Mission
The mission of life essentials is to be the community leader inproviding professional, person-centered services to enhance thewell-being of vulnerable adults.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Guardianship - the program provides support for those deemed mentallyincompetent by the probate court and that do not have any familywilling or capable of making sound decisions for them. Life essentialstrains volunteers and employs staff to take on this critical role asguardian. Guardians work with their clients to ensure the client hasthe best possible life and lives in the least restrictive environment.guardians function as the advocate and ensure the safety and well-beingof their clients. Being a guardian is a significant responsibility; onethat protects the rights and dignity of a fellow human being. Incurrent year, 279 clients received 3,375 interventions. Volunteersprovided services valued at $20,388 not included in service hours.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $188k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 17% · 2018 18% · 2019 19% · 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $191k → $49k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ESSENTIALS INC’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 ESSENTIALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 ESSENTIALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 78% · 2019 83% · 2020 76% — 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
40% of LIFE ESSENTIALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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 FY2020, 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
97% of LIFE ESSENTIALS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like LIFE ESSENTIALS INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ESSENTIALS 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 ESSENTIALS INC?
- LIFE ESSENTIALS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,337 to it, the largest being GREATER DAYTON AREA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ($487,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE ESSENTIALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $614,337 in grants to LIFE ESSENTIALS INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE ESSENTIALS INC?
- GREATER DAYTON AREA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $487,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE ESSENTIALS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 10 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