Colorado · Nonprofit
Life Network
Life Network (Colorado) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,343,985 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($625,510). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Life Network does
Mission
Life Network provides support and mentoring to women and men facing unexpected pregnancies; offers parenting support, material resources, and referrals; and promotes sexual risk avoidance through education to foster a culture that values life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Colorado Springs Pregnancy Centers: A foundational life network priority is to support women and men who are facing unexpected pregnancy. We provide medical-grade pregnancy tests, educational information, ultrasounds, early pregnancy care, and STD testing and treatment under the direction of our medical director. Last year, we served 3,896 clients at our pregnancy centers, provided 1,412 ultrasounds, and celebrated 557 babies saved. Our patients also received support through community referrals for housing, food emergency assistance, and other related services. Our parenting program provides opportunities for ongoing one-on-one mentorship, parenting and childbirth classes, and extensive material resources. Bridges of hope, our post-abortion care program, helps women and men process, grieve, and heal from past abortions.
$3,163,793 spentof which $70,390 as grants$73,624 earned by the program67% of program spendingLife Network Family Thrift Stores: our two thrift stores provide quality, affordable goods to our surrounding community, and the proceeds from the stores benefit our life-giving ministry. Life network clients earn and receive "store bucks" that can be used for furniture, clothes, furnishings, and more as they start their families.
$1,187,443 spent$-156,514 earned by the program25% of program spendingEducation for a Lifetime: This in-school program provides comprehensive education on healthy relationships, suicide awareness and prevention, and mental health awareness. Last year, we taught more than 7,642 students in 35 middle and high schools.
$363,113 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,714,349.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.1M to $6.0M (+47%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
104% of Life Network’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Board chair
Derek Hanson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $84k → $566k.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Network’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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 Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% 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 Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 27% · 2019 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 39% · 2022 27% · 2023 34% — 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
46% of Life Network'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
61% of Life Network'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. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Network has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Life Network receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
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 Network
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
79% 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 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Life Network: 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 Network?
- Life Network (Colorado) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,343,985 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($625,510). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Life Network have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,343,985 in grants to Life Network, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Life Network?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $625,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Life Network 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 52 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