Minnesota · Nonprofit
LIFE HOUSE INC
LIFE HOUSE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,137,571 to it, the largest being HEARTH CONNECTION ($604,705). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Life House Inc does
Mission
Life house works to reconnect homeless and street youth to their dreams with a vision that no youth will be left homeless, alone, uncared for, or fending for themselves on the streets. Our comprehensive service model aims to engage and stabilize youth while they heal and work on a path to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The housing program has 50 units of housing with supportive case management throughout the duluth community. Units include housing for unhoused youth and young families, survivors of sexual exploitation and human trafficking, and youth suffering from addiction and severe mental illness. The program also offers housing crisis services aimed at preventing homelessness, including emergency rental assistance for eligible households facing eviction and housing identification with deposit assistance for homeless street youth and young families; assistance with advocacy with landlords and utility companies as necessary.
$1,452,891 spent$156,373 earned by the program54% of program spendingThe mental health & wellness program (mhwp) provides immediate access to no-cost, no insurance required mental/chemical health services. The mhwp provides daily support and on-going services to improve physical, mental, and spiritual wellness.
$560,290 spent21% of program spendingThe youth drop-in center is the starting place for youth accessing life house's services. Youth are able to access meals, basic needs supplies, laundry, and showers. A wide range of independent living skills classes, activities, support groups, field trips, etc. Are offered daily. The youth center is also the headquarters for the street outreach program, locating and building relationships with youth and providing crisis needs and referral to community resources.
$453,303 spent17% of program spendingThe futures education and employment program works to connect youth to education and employment opportunities in the community. Our licensed teacher works with youth to earn their educational credentials. Our employment case manager works with youth to find and keep employment on a path to thriving. We also offer an in-house job training program, called the legitimate hustle program. This program offers youth a safe way to earn money while learning job skills and creating their own social enterprise.
$244,037 spent$12,602 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,710,521.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.5M to $3.3M (+31%).
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 56% · 2018 53% · 2019 65% · 2020 67% · 2021 64% · 2022 58% · 2023 64% · 2024 67% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LIFE HOUSE INC’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 9 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
Amber Sadowski
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $393k → $468k.
8 of 47 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 HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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 HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
58% 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 HOUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 21% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 20% — broadly stable.
“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
48% of LIFE HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
88% of LIFE HOUSE INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $249k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LIFE HOUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$19k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LIFE HOUSE 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 Minnesota
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
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 HOUSE 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 HOUSE INC?
- LIFE HOUSE INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,137,571 to it, the largest being HEARTH CONNECTION ($604,705). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,137,571 in grants to LIFE HOUSE INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE HOUSE INC?
- HEARTH CONNECTION is the largest funder on record, with $604,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE HOUSE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 47 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