California · Nonprofit
LIFEMOVES
LIFEMOVES (California) receives grants from 261 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,833,283 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($23,266,833). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 261
- Grants received
- $103M
- Net assets
- $160M
What Lifemoves does
Mission
Lifemoves provides interim housing and supportive services for homeless families and individuals to rapidly return to stable housing and achieve long-term self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Interim housing & supportive services: in our most recent fiscal year fy25 (july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2025), Lifemoves provided over 543,633 nights of shelter, and returned over 1,900 clients to permanent housing. On any given night, we feed, clothe, and house more than 1,578 individuals across 26 shelter and service sites, through the work of more than 425 employees and thousands of supporters and volunteers. In addition to providing the basic necessities of food, clothing, and shelter, Lifemoves provides intensive case management and a broad range of supportive services including employment counseling, housing locator assistance, financial literacy education, benefits enrollment, health care referrals, substance use disorder counseling, and behavioral health support services.
$39,045,541 spentof which $7,767,744 as grants$154,723 earned by the program73% of program spendingServices for chronically homeless individuals: chronically homeless clients are defined by the federal department of housing and urban development (hud); these clients have a documented disability and have been homeless for over 12 months consecutively, or homeless for 4+ episodes in the last 3 years totaling more than 12 months. Chronically homeless individuals enter programs with different needs, wants, and barriers. Clients coming in the "door" to a Lifemoves program last year fell into 3 roughly equal groups: first-time homeless (35%); chronically homeless (35%); and in-between (30%). Serving these disparate groups well requires that we balance our resources thoughtfully and have multiple tools in our services toolkit. This speaks to why it is so essential that Lifemoves tailors services and supports for individual clients.
$7,803,764 spentof which $1,552,486 as grants15% of program spendingServices for veterans: with the launch of eleven-eleven, Lifemoves now operates a total of 90 veteran-dedicated housing units across san mateo and santa clara counties. The new program, developed in partnership with the u.s. Department of veterans affairs, expands Lifemoves' capacity to serve veterans experiencing homelessness by roughly 20%, providing critical housing and essential services tailored to the needs of former service members. In fiscal year 2024, Lifemoves assisted approximately 280 veteran clients, a number that continues to decline as veterans engage successfully with supportive programs. This fiscal year, we have consistently had more than thirty veterans enrolled at any given time. As a result of this veteran specific program, collaboration between the va and Lifemoves has been elevated. Additionally, service provision has increased, including the ability to serve veteran couples and veterans with a caregiver where it otherwise was too difficult while at the san mateo county navigation center.
$2,790,450 spentof which $555,134 as grants5% of program spendingOutreach and other interim housing services - Lifemoves continues to be the largest provider of homeless interim housing serving adults and children in silicon valley.
$3,944,872 spentof which $784,795 as grants$259,456 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $53,584,627.
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.
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 $76M to $151M (+98%).
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 53% · 2018 55% · 2019 49% · 2020 46% · 2021 62% · 2022 44% · 2023 30% · 2024 39% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Aubrey Merriman
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Melissa Selcher
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 127 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $22M.
43 of 261 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 LIFEMOVES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 261 funders by total. 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
LIFEMOVES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
62% 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 LIFEMOVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 35% · 2020 17% · 2021 42% · 2022 43% · 2023 36% — 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.
How long its funders stay
51% of LIFEMOVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
50% of LIFEMOVES'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 $51M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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.
Government funding LIFEMOVES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $46.1M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$35.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$10.7M
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 LIFEMOVES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 4 related entities
- Vendome LLC · disregarded
- Family Crossroads LLC · disregarded
- Homesafe San Jose LP · partnership
- Homesafe Santa Clara LP · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFEMOVES: 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 LIFEMOVES?
- LIFEMOVES (California) receives grants from 261 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,833,283 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($23,266,833). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFEMOVES have?
- IRS filings report 261 organizations giving $102,833,283 in grants to LIFEMOVES, 172 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFEMOVES?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $23,266,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFEMOVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 261 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing