Virginia · Nonprofit
LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION
LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,526 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($25,358). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $119k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $27k
- Net assets
- $9k
What Lifeline Energy Foundation does
Mission
To provide access to audio content that educates, informs and invigorates learning for vulnerable and at-risk populations mainly in sub-saharan africa. Our fit-for-purpose, solar and wind-up radios and mp3 players are designed and engineered for large groups, classrooms and also families. We respond to humanitarian emergencies globally with solar and wind-up radio-lights. We are also involved in capacity building and training of local partners and populations. As a result of many years working across africa in all types of communications initiatives, Lifeline Energy Foundation also provides communications, design, website, digital literacy and other types of training to ngos, african entrepreneurs, and others working in africa in the development sector. The aim is to build local capacity and skills. Much of this work is undertaken on a pro bono basis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization funded procurement and distribution of solar and wind-up radios and media players to critically poor populations, farmer groups, women's listening groups, schools and community groups in sub-saharan africa, enabling sustained access to information, education, clean light and cell phone charging. The organization continued to create partnerships with in-country ngos and communitites for radio listening trainings. In addition, it worked with local start-up entrepreneurs and social innovators to conduct training and capacity building workshops mainly to help increase their communications capacity. In addition, it worked with local start-up entrepreneurs and social innovators, delivering capacity-building, branding, and presentation workshops to help them raise funds for their organizations. These organizations, in turn, create jobs and opportunities that help lift people out of poverty.
$110,543 spentof which $17,600 as grants$118,524 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $110,543.
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 2018 to 2019, from $95k to $42k (−56%).
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.
0% of LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Kristine Pearson
President/chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $38.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 LIFELINE ENERGY 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
LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
96% 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 LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 92% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
96% of LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION'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 $962 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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
LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFELINE ENERGY 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFELINE ENERGY 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 LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,526 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($25,358). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,526 in grants to LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $25,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFELINE ENERGY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3 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