Michigan · Nonprofit
LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION
LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,627,521 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($222,306). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $707k
What Lifelabkids Foundation does
Mission
Lifelab kids foundation helps students of all abilities to discover and explore their unique, true potential through a blend of evidence-based interventions, therapeutic activities, and innovative technologies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, lifelab kids achieved significant growth in both program innovation and organizational sustainability. We expanded our technology program into a comprehensive stem curriculum, introducing robotics, coding, engineering, and hands-on science activities that promote problem-solving, communication, executive functioning, and collaboration for children and young adults with developmental disabilities. These engaging, interest- based learning opportunities have strengthened our ability to deliver meaningful, child-led therapeutic experiences while preparing participants with skills that support future academic, vocational, and independent living success. In addition to program expansion, lifelab kids made substantial progress toward fiscal sustainability across all service departments. Through strategic operational planning, improved resource allocation, and a focus on service efficiency, we strengthened the financial health of our organization while maintaining high-quality clinical care. These efforts have positioned lifelab kids to continue investing in innovative programming, expanding access to services, and ensuring long-term stability for the children, families, and…
$2,089,879 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,089,879.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $3.0M (+86%).
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 1% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $50k → $521k.
10 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION’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
LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
73% 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 LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 64% · 2021 38% · 2022 19% · 2023 43% — 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
57% of LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
78% of LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $506k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION: 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 LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION?
- LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,627,521 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ($222,306). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,627,521 in grants to LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION?
- UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN is the largest funder on record, with $222,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFELABKIDS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 26 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