North Carolina · Nonprofit
LIFESPAN INC
LIFESPAN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,992,420 to it, the largest being IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ($1,866,782). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Lifespan Inc does
Mission
Lifespan empowers children and adults with disabilities by providing education, employment, and enrichment opportunities to live, work and play in their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Employment and enrichment: lifespan provides employment services through the north carolina division of vocational rehabilitation, serving individuals across western and central north carolina. Commissioned by both the division of vocational rehabilitation services and managed care organizations, lifespan supports individuals who want to work in securing and maintaining meaningful employment. Our employment services span 16 counties and include comprehensive vocational assessments, person-centered career exploration, and individualized job development. Employment specialists partner with local employers to secure positions, provide on-the-job training, and deliver ongoing support to promote long-term employment success. In addition, lifespan offers community-based enrichment programs in union, mecklenburg, iredell, surry, guilford, and marble counties through its creative campus model. These programs provide inclusive, hands-on learning environments with an interactive curriculum focused on horticulture, visual and performing arts, culinary arts, sensory experiences, health and wellness, leisure and recreation, computer literacy, music appreciation, and volunteer engagement.…
$4,830,830 spent$5,057,112 earned by the program62% of program spendingEducation: lifespan early learning centers are inclusive early learning centers serving children with and without disabilities from six weeks of age through the start of kindergarten. The centers are designed to support children of all abilities in a nurturing, developmentally appropriate, and inclusive learning environment. Lifespan currently operates two early learning centers serving children and families in the community. In addition to early childhood care, lifespan offers afterschool and summer care programs for children ages 612, providing a safe, enriching environment that supports continued learning, social development, and family needs beyond the traditional school day and school year. Lifespan also provides intervention services, including speech therapy and occupational therapy, for qualifying children. These services are available to support developmental needs and promote positive outcomes for children enrolled in lifespan programs and within the broader community, as appropriate. Through inclusive practices and integrated support services, lifespan is committed to helping children reach their full potential while supporting families and strengthening the community.
$1,361,914 spent$1,425,707 earned by the program18% of program spendingResidential services: lifespan offers long-term residential services through four icf-iid group homes in mecklenburg county and one innovations group home located in andrews, nc. Individuals live in accessible, family- like environments staffed 24/7, where they share daily life while remaining active members of their local communities. Lifespan's long-term services and support are designed to address each person holistically, recognizing that every individual has unique needs. Residential services include assistance with personal health and hygiene, recreational and leisure activities, and training in social skills, along with access to specialized consultative services. Residents are encouraged to engage in their communities by volunteering, attending religious services, and participating in continuing education opportunities.
$1,555,502 spent$1,628,362 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,748,246.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $16M (+11%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Robin Carson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $102k → $594k.
3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LIFESPAN 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
LIFESPAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 LIFESPAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 39% · 2019 61% · 2020 84% · 2021 59% · 2022 64% · 2023 54% — 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
47% of LIFESPAN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
100% of LIFESPAN INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like LIFESPAN INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Smc Group Home II Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFESPAN INC: 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 LIFESPAN INC?
- LIFESPAN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,992,420 to it, the largest being IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ($1,866,782). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFESPAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,992,420 in grants to LIFESPAN INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFESPAN INC?
- IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,866,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFESPAN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 24 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