New Jersey · Nonprofit
LIFE RAFT GROUP INC
LIFE RAFT GROUP INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,935 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES GROUP ($100,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $518k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Life Raft Group Inc does
Mission
Enhancing survival and quality of life for people living with gist and other rare cancers through patient-powered research, education, empowerment and global advocacy efforts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Research: we fund and manage uniquely coordinated research initiatives that always keep the needs of gist patients foremost. The life raft group (lrg) continues to lead a collaborative team of world-renowned scientists and clinicians in gist. Lrg has the largest gist patient registry in the world. Our research paradigm is patient-powered science for life. A comprehensive approach that compliments traditional research with real world evidence supported by data.
$1,086,139 spentof which $20,000 as grants70% of program spendingInformation, education, advocacy, outreach & engagement: the lrg provides support, intervention, education and advocacy to gist patients, their families, and caregivers. Local support is available to the gist community through a network of lrg mentors and volunteers. Our education programs are offered worldwide. Our gist days of learning andour biennial life fest event gather experts from across the globe to bring the most up to date information on gist research, emerging therapies and updates on the world of gist. Our outreach and engagement efforts also include patient support groups, focus groups, monthly webcasts, our website, access to our clinical trials database and our worldwide gist specialist database. Expert patient training is offered to all members.
$473,840 spent$79,742 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,559,979.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.4M to $3.7M (−17%).
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 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LIFE RAFT GROUP INC’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. 5 of the last 8 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
Sara Rothschild
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $25k → $63k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 RAFT GROUP 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 RAFT GROUP INC 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 RAFT GROUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 42% · 2021 55% · 2022 47% · 2023 19% — 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
28% of LIFE RAFT GROUP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
75% of LIFE RAFT GROUP INC'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 $128k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $390k 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 RAFT GROUP INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFE RAFT GROUP 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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 RAFT GROUP 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 RAFT GROUP INC?
- LIFE RAFT GROUP INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,935 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES GROUP ($100,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE RAFT GROUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $517,935 in grants to LIFE RAFT GROUP INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE RAFT GROUP INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES GROUP is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE RAFT GROUP INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 30 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