Ohio · Nonprofit
Life Exchange Center
Life Exchange Center (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,000 to it, the largest being SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $728k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $288k
- Net assets
- $642k
What Life Exchange Center does
Mission
It is a beacon of hope and recovery from individuals with mental health/substance use issues. The Center is designed to assist with the recovery process by providing social support, educational programs, and life skills training for individuals in recovery.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Support social interaction and group experience in an accepting family like environment to provide services which are not only delivered by consumers, but also are planned developed and evaluated by consumers to provide consumers with opportunities to develop self empowerment and to make informed choices.
$737,376 spentof which $680,399 as grants$718,885 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $737,376.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $194k to $938k (+384%).
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 94% · 2018 91% · 2019 51% · 2020 92% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Life Exchange Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Darlene Darby-Baldwin
Executive Director
Board chair
James Poole
Board President/Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $23k → $65k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Exchange Center’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 Exchange Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 Exchange Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 77% — 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
100% of Life Exchange Center's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k 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 Exchange Center's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Life Exchange Center
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Life Exchange Center: 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 Exchange Center?
- Life Exchange Center (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,000 to it, the largest being SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Life Exchange Center have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $288,000 in grants to Life Exchange Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Life Exchange Center?
- SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Life Exchange Center 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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