Alabama · Nonprofit
LIFE IS HOPE
LIFE IS HOPE (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,460 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $23k
What Life Is Hope does
Mission
Life is Hope will initially assist with the charitable relief efforts in Portau-Prince, Haiti. Life is Hope plans to live out Christs admonition to care for, and to give hope to, the least of these, specifically orphans, by providing housing and other basic necessities for the glory of God and the building of His Kingdom. The corporation will serve two purposes. The first purpose is to raise enough funds to be able to rebuild an orphanage that was destroyed by the earthquake that ravaged the island nation of Haiti. After the earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010, the orphanage is limited to how many children it can house. Each and every week, mothers leave the orphanage crying because they are not able to house any more children. With the funds that Life is Hope will raise, they hope to build a better facility that includes a school, a trade school, and hopefully a medical clinic. The second purpose that Life is Hope will fulfill is to help with the construction of the orphanage. Withou
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Life is Hope will initially assist with the charitable relief efforts in Portau-Prince, Haiti. Life is Hope plans to live out Christs admonition to care for, and to give hope to, the least of these, specifically orphans, by providing housing and other basic necessities for the glory of God and the building of His Kingdom.
$81,589 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $81,589.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $14k to $35k (+142%).
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.
100% of LIFE IS HOPE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $68.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 IS HOPE’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 IS HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
100% 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 IS HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFE IS HOPE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Against its field
LIFE IS HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LIFE IS HOPE
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 IS HOPE: 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 IS HOPE?
- LIFE IS HOPE (Alabama) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,460 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE IS HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,460 in grants to LIFE IS HOPE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE IS HOPE?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE IS HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2 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