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LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC

LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,502 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ($764,352). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.0M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$931k
Net assets
$951k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Lifeline for the Empowerment and Development of Consumers Inc does

Mission

To provide emergency assistance, budget counseling and life skills training to improve self-sufficiency.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The housing program assists customers in obtaining safe and affordable rental housing throughout lake county.

    $430,740 spent
    13% of program spending
  2. With the coronavirus relief funds, we assisted lake county and geauga county households in maintaining their housing and utilities during the covid-19 pandemic-these are all households who demonstrated a covid-related financial impact on their household. Assistance included financial help with utilities, rent or mortgage.

    $883,038 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. For the home energy assistance program (heap),we provided households with emergency utility assistance. Through the winter crisis program we assisted households in maintaining their heat during the cold winter months. During the summer crisis season, we assisted households that either had a senior citizen or a resident with a documented health condition that warranted cooling assistance.

    $971,862 spent
    29% of program spending
  4. Miscellaneous program services

    $1,099,711 spent
    32% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,385,351.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($353k)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.5M) Expenses 102 ($1.5M) Net assets 102 ($362k)2019 Revenue 109 ($1.7M) Expenses 109 ($1.6M) Net assets 119 ($421k)2020 Revenue 180 ($2.7M) Expenses 176 ($2.6M) Net assets 160 ($565k)2021 Revenue 390 ($5.9M) Expenses 390 ($5.8M) Net assets 189 ($669k)2022 Revenue 507 ($7.7M) Expenses 510 ($7.6M) Net assets 191 ($676k)2023 Revenue 318 ($4.8M) Expenses 285 ($4.3M) Net assets 363 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 201 ($3.0M) Expenses 233 ($3.5M) Net assets 269 ($951k)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (233)Net assets (269)Peer revenue range

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 $3.1M to $1.6M (−47%).

$517k
$542k
$580k
$1.5M
$2.2M
$3.1M
$1.6M
$1.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 87% · 2018 88% · 2019 87% · 2020 93% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’17
$15k
’18
$29k
’19
$110k
’20
$89k
’21
$75k
’22
$569k
’23
−$422k
’24
1.8
months of
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

Carrie Dotson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1922182019192022
Joined·+9+1+5+5+2+5+4
No longer listed·6536242
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $118k → $129k.

Funder
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'22
'23
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total
funders
1
2
2
3
2
2
3
2
1

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS 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

LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC.

82%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 82% · 2020 52% · 2021 81% · 2022 55% · 2023 63% — 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

100% of LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
CT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC has grown faster than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC

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In Ohio

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC?
LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $930,502 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ($764,352). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $930,502 in grants to LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC?
UNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $764,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFELINE FOR THE EMPOWERMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONSUMERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 5 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