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LIFE'S DOOR INC

LIFE'S DOOR INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,689 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$100k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$563k
Net assets
$193k
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Life's Door Inc does

Mission

To foster and advance the understanding of mortality in terminally ill persons.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To foster and advance the understanding of mortality in terminally ill persons.

    $139,990 spentof which $110,000 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. To foster and advance the understanding of mortality in terminally ill persons.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $139,990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($135k) Net assets 100 ($323k)2018 Revenue 142 ($230k) Expenses 138 ($186k) Net assets 114 ($367k)2019 Revenue 23 ($38k) Expenses 189 ($254k) Net assets 47 ($151k)2020 Revenue 29 ($47k) Expenses 102 ($138k) Net assets 19 ($60k)2021 Revenue 92 ($148k) Expenses 37 ($49k) Net assets 49 ($159k)2022 Revenue 92 ($149k) Expenses 66 ($89k) Net assets 68 ($219k)2023 Revenue 48 ($77k) Expenses 35 ($47k) Net assets 77 ($249k)2024 Revenue 62 ($100k) Expenses 116 ($156k) Net assets 60 ($193k)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (116)Net assets (60)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $367k to $151k (−59%).

$323k
$367k
$151k
$60k
$159k
$219k
$249k
$193k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of LIFE'S DOOR INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,557 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
$45k
’18
−$217k
’19
−$91k
’20
$99k
’21
$60k
’22
$30k
’23
−$57k
’24
13
months of
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.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $125k → $24k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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'S DOOR 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'S DOOR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

39% 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'S DOOR INC.

18%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 59% · 2019 57% · 2020 54% · 2021 82% · 2022 91% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.

“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

42% of LIFE'S DOOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

LIFE'S DOOR INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.

NY
NJ
RI
CA
MD
OK
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $218k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIFE'S DOOR INC is better cushioned than half of the 14,880 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−57% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,880 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like LIFE'S DOOR 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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIFE'S DOOR INC?
LIFE'S DOOR INC (New York) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $562,689 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFE'S DOOR INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $562,689 in grants to LIFE'S DOOR INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFE'S DOOR INC?
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM 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'S DOOR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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