Arkansas · Nonprofit
LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH
LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH (Arkansas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,168,630 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($712,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $-28279
What Life Skills for Youth does
Mission
To provide personal development educational enhancement, and career preparation, which will create a foundation for success in life. To provide after-school and summer programs for youth and young adults fulfilling the need for effective supplemental education and physical fitness programs outside of traditional academic settings.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing after-school and summer programs for youth and young adults fulfilling the need for effective supplemental education and physical fitness.
$394,377 spent36% of program spendingProviding after-school and summer programs for youth and young adults fulfilling the need for effective supplemental education and physical fitness.
$695,847 spent64% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,090,224.
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 2023 to 2024, from $51k to $541k (+961%).
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: 2017 20% · 2018 26% · 2019 16% · 2020 17% · 2021 30% · 2022 88% · 2023 67% · 2024 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% 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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $150k → $357k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SKILLS FOR YOUTH’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 SKILLS FOR YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 SKILLS FOR YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 71% · 2019 53% · 2020 57% · 2021 66% · 2022 48% · 2023 49% — 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
43% of LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH'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
64% of LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH'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 $786k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
Against its field
LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH
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 Arkansas
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH: 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 SKILLS FOR YOUTH?
- LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH (Arkansas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,168,630 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($712,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,168,630 in grants to LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $712,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 24 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