Illinois · Nonprofit
LIFELONG ACCESS
LIFELONG ACCESS (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,019 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY ($139,741). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $553k
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Lifelong Access does
Mission
At Lifelong Access, we fight to break downbarriers for each other and those who cannot fight for themselves. We envision a community where children, teens, and adults receive holistic support through a lifetime of meaningful services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential 24 hour:Lifelong Access provides community-integrated living arrangements (cila) all over the bloomington-normal area. Each person has a person-centered individual service plan, or isp, overseen by a case manager.24-hour cilaLifelong Access provides cila supports in three duplexes and two houses settings range from 4-8 people depending on the site all 24-hour cila sites have overnight staff that are awake all night each person in the 24-hour setting has their own bedroom.
$3,028,199 spent$6,015,103 earned by the program38% of program spendingTherapy:pediatric therapy services provides a variety of services for all children up to 18 years of age and their families, including: applied behavioral analysis (aba), physical therapy (pt), occupational therapy (ot), developmental therapy (dt), speech language therapy (st), social & emotional therapy (se), early intervention (ei), feeding therapy, serial casting, family support groups, aquatics therapy, parent-child interaction therapy (pcit).
$2,108,223 spent$1,658,318 earned by the program27% of program spendingCommunity day programs:Lifelong Access community day services (formally developmental training) is offered to adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities that focuses on the development and enhancement of daily adaptive living skills and economic self-sufficiency. We create a learning environment outside of a person's residential living arrangement to foster the acquisition of skills, appropriate behavior, greater independence, and personal choice that meets everyone's wants and needs. Community day services provide assistance to maintain or teach skills in one or more of the following areas: fine and gross motor development, attention span, safety, problem-solving, grooming, dressing, toileting, eating, communication, reduction in maladaptive behaviors, quantitative skills, and independent living. Each participant in this program collaborates with their established support team, a unique person-centered plan built to help meet individual desired outcomes and needs. Support for this program is run by qualified intellectual disability professionals and direct support professionals who oversee and provide quality care as well as a team of nursing support on-site. Our…
$1,418,321 spent$3,606,255 earned by the program18% of program spendingIntermittent residential, bhc, janitorial Lifelong Access provides cila supports in three duplexes and two houses settings range from 4-8 people depending on the site all 24-hour cila sites have overnight staff that are awake all night each person in the 24-hour setting has their own bedroom.
$1,353,472 spent$964,313 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,908,215.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $8.6M (+75%).
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 92% · 2018 92% · 2019 91% · 2020 94% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of LIFELONG ACCESS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $80k → $90k.
7 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 LIFELONG ACCESS’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
LIFELONG ACCESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 LIFELONG ACCESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 70% · 2019 40% · 2020 31% · 2021 29% · 2022 31% · 2023 22% — 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
58% of LIFELONG ACCESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
86% of LIFELONG ACCESS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k 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
LIFELONG ACCESS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFELONG ACCESS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 LIFELONG ACCESS: 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 LIFELONG ACCESS?
- LIFELONG ACCESS (Illinois) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,019 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY ($139,741). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFELONG ACCESS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $553,019 in grants to LIFELONG ACCESS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFELONG ACCESS?
- UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $139,741 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFELONG ACCESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 22 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