Indiana · Nonprofit
LIFEDESIGNS INC
LIFEDESIGNS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,595 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ($99,335). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $165k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Lifedesigns Inc does
Mission
To partner with and promote independence for people with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Group homes and supported living--lifedesigns supported over 100 people in their communites to gain independence and continued to help people get jobs they love. Residential services at Lifedesigns Include group homes staffed 24 hours a day to provide any support or guidance that residents may require. Services are also provided to assist individuals to participate in all phases of daily living, with more control over their lives and with greater access and participation in their communities.housing--23 affordable and accessible housing units serve 32 people. Services are provided in attractive communities close to many ammenities. Most tenants have lived in our units for over five years.
$5,240,769 spent$6,340,618 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,240,769.
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 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $860k (−93%).
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 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 16% · 2021 4% · 2022 6% · 2023 17% · 2024 13% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of LIFEDESIGNS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
L Shane Burton
Dsi CEO
Board chair
David Lynn Boyer
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $66.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LIFEDESIGNS 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
LIFEDESIGNS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 LIFEDESIGNS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFEDESIGNS INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k 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
LIFEDESIGNS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFEDESIGNS 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Lifedesigns-McKinley LLC · disregarded
- Lifedesigns-Crawford II · disregarded
- Dsi Diversified Solutions Inc · exempt
- Developmental Services Inc · exempt
- Four River Resource Services · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFEDESIGNS 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 LIFEDESIGNS INC?
- LIFEDESIGNS INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,595 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ($99,335). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFEDESIGNS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $164,595 in grants to LIFEDESIGNS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFEDESIGNS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA is the largest funder on record, with $99,335 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFEDESIGNS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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