New York · Nonprofit
LIFE PRESERVERS INC
LIFE PRESERVERS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $764 to it, the largest being MURREN FOUNDATION INC ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $764
- Net assets
- $45k
What Life Preservers Inc does
Mission
Life preservers project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts collective and assistance organization incorporated to raise awareness and funds for the victims of human trafficking.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Life preservers, inc gave cash and in kind donations to a new york city based anti-trafficking/anti-sexual explotation organization. In addition to cash donations, life preservers, inc also provided in kind donations including clothing and hygiene supplies for crisis bags and a donation of a laptop for their offices.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $500 → $120.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PRESERVERS INC’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 PRESERVERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
35% 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 PRESERVERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 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
LIFE PRESERVERS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $264 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 PRESERVERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like LIFE PRESERVERS 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 New York
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE PRESERVERS 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 PRESERVERS INC?
- LIFE PRESERVERS INC (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $764 to it, the largest being MURREN FOUNDATION INC ($500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFE PRESERVERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $764 in grants to LIFE PRESERVERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE PRESERVERS INC?
- MURREN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE PRESERVERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), 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