Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL
LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,323 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($77,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $30k
What Life Together International does
Mission
Life Together International seeks to shape a world where women, children, and men live free of oppressive systems, and flourish in life together as God intends. Our mission is to end the oppression of girls and women by cultivating biblical oneness between men and women. Through the integration of biblical and scientific messages on human bonding, with investment in girls and women, we minister alongside like-minded global partners to transform hearts so cultural practices that devalue, mutilate, or silence women and girls no longer hold sway in African communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Form 990-EZ - Part III, Line 28 - MINISTRY ACHIEVEMENTS TO END FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION AND CULTIVATE GENDER EQUALITY - TOTAL $77,411. CONFERENCES TO EDUCATE TOWARD ENDING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) IN Uganda, Kenya, and Ethiopia-SUBTOTAL $60,887. In this fiscal year, Rev. Patti Ricotta and our Life Together International team facilitated a conference in Uganda that brought together all the girls/women we have taught and trained over the last ten years. 750 girls and women joyously participated. They wanted to tell us how the biblical teaching about God's perfect design for love, marriage and for their perfect bodies has changed their lives for the better. Knowing they did not have to submit to bodily mutilation in order to please God has made an enormous difference, and learning income generating skills has helped to lift them out of poverty and into a more meaningful life. Also, the training we have given our partners Stephen and Alice Mwanika has made an immense difference in the lives of over 2000 people. Alice and Stephen have taught in Liria, Moroto, and Ongongoja Uganda, serving 1,035 people. The Biblical Equality material they have learned to teach has become so…
$77,411 spent71% of program spendingForm 990-EZ - Part III, Line 29 - INVESTMENT IN MINISTRY PARTNERS' DEVELOPMENT, EFFECTIVENESS, AND SUSTAINABILITY - TOTAL $17,543. These funds help our long-term ministry partners move forward in their ability to serve others every day. One of our ministry partners from the Diocese of Mara in Tanzania is named Max. He asked LTI for a loan to buy an outboard motor and other equipment he needed for a new fishing boat he purchased. Max wanted to increase his income in retirement by fishing for Daaga-the tiny sardine-like fish full of protein that are everywhere in Lake Victoria. We continue to be concerned about the quality of food and the amount of protein the girls at the Safe House are getting. So, we offered Max the loan amount he needed, $2,510, but made a deal that he pays it back, not to LTI, but by supplying the Safe House with in 100 kilos of Daaga per month for 2 years till the loan is paid off. Daaga is a favorite food for Tanzanians. Now the girls are getting healthier, Max has a new boat, and he has employed 5 out of work fishermen to run it. We are grateful to God that meeting Max's need also meets the need of 23 girls and 5 fishermen! We also made a gift of $386 to the…
$17,543 spent16% of program spendingForm 990-EZ - Part III, Line 30 - Agape Academy Primary School, Kaleko Village, Butebo District, Uganda TOTAL $13,771. Life Together International, along with strong support from Granville Federated Church (GFC) in Granville, MA has supported the education, development and health of the 580 children (100 of whom are orphans and live at the school) since 2016. This year we provided $3,622 in funds for food security for the children of Agape School. We also provided $1,440 to provide feed for the chickens, goats and pigs--all intended to increase the children's food security. The funds for food and feed were broken into monthly instalments and wired to the school. GFC built a water well on the campus in 2016, which LTI oversaw, and together, GFC and LTI maintain the needs of this all-important water source. This year we paid $660 to replace 10 pipes that were original to the 2016 build. We also replaced the pump, and it's equipment, as well as treated the well when it had a worm infestation. With a gift from a supporter of $8,050, we also finished the school's library with the purchases of tables and chairs, books, shelving and other library needs.
$13,771 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $108,725.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $56k to $78k (+40%).
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.
100% of LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $22k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL’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 TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
69% 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 TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 99% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL has grown faster than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL
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 Massachusetts
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 TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL: 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 TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL?
- LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,323 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($77,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $112,323 in grants to LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $77,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFE TOGETHER INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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