Colorado · Nonprofit
LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT
LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,224 to it, the largest being Faith and Learning International NFP ($398,468). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $528k
What Life for the Innocent does
Mission
Life for the Innocent partners with communities to rescue, restore and renew children affected by human trafficking
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lfti's team in south asia works with partners on the ground to identify and intervene for children trafficked for sex, labor, or organs. After every rescue, the team provides initial services through local agencies, including medical examinations and identification documents. Every child immediately goes on the missing child registry in order to find any family members who may be looking for them. When this intake process is finished, the team transports children to lfti's homes in south asia, providing a safe place to heal and grow. Lfti operates over 2 dozen homes for rescued children in south asia. Children stay in the homes for 6-8 months, depending on the level of care needed. Here, their physical, spiritual, educational and emotional needs are addressed before placement with their vetted, adoptive forever family. Lfti's robust two-year follow-up process ensures ongoing accountability for parents and long-term support for the kids.
$2,124,427 spentof which $1,911,425 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,124,427.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $340k to $657k (+93%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Josh Forster
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $1k → $176k.
11 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FOR THE INNOCENT’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 FOR THE INNOCENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 FOR THE INNOCENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 36% · 2022 62% · 2023 57% — 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
38% of LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 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 FOR THE INNOCENT draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $471k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 FOR THE INNOCENT has grown faster than half of the 1,325 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT: 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 FOR THE INNOCENT?
- LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT (Colorado) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,068,224 to it, the largest being Faith and Learning International NFP ($398,468). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,068,224 in grants to LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT?
- Faith and Learning International NFP is the largest funder on record, with $398,468 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE FOR THE INNOCENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing