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LIFESPAN LOCAL INC

LIFESPAN LOCAL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,727,533 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($9,086,875). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
$22M
9/16 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Lifespan Local Inc does

Mission

Cultivate community well-being through partnerships with local residents and community champions.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

The foodworks program ended in july 2025.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Our food team doubled the size of the southwest food coalition, bringing together 40 organizations committed to ensuring access to healthy, culturally responsive food for residents. Through this collaboration, coalition partners collectively distributed more than 1,000,000 pounds of food.the southwest food coalition (resident-led, with administrative and funding support from lifespan local) has made measurable progress in addressing food insecurity while advancing longer-term systems change. By fostering communication, collaboration, and resource-sharing among food access organizations, the coalition strengthened coordination across the network through july 2025.

    $577,350 spentof which $32,458 as grants
    31% of program spending

  2. Our maternal mental health team enrolled more than 75 families in our peer-to-peer programming, provided 350 children with clothing, toys, and diapers, provided 1-on-1 resource navigation to 30 families, and hosted monthly events for families like field trips, educational talks, and community baby showers. Mental health matters, and we want to boost access to programming that will promote mental health access for sw denver.

    $431,241 spentof which $6,201 as grants
    23% of program spending

  3. Community support

    $354,421 spentof which $354,421 as grants
    19% of program spending

  4. The hydroponic farm is a vibrant space where fresh, nutritious food is grown year-round and shared with the community, while also serving as a hands-on learning hub for science, sustainability, and connection.

    $142,407 spent
    8% of program spending

  5. Our public health team reached more than 4,500 community members with information about covid-19, connecting residents to resources to get vaccinations, providing at-home test kits and masks, and reaching pockets of community members who still had significant barriers to accessing information, resources, and care.

    $124,242 spentof which $84,150 as grants
    7% of program spending

  6. In partnership with mile high early learning, our new early learning center will include both early head start and head start opportunities for little ones and their families discover a thriving and supportive youth space where young people can build skills, connect with mentors, and unlock opportunities for a brighter future.

    $200,332 spentof which $2,030 as grants
    11% of program spending

  7. Community learning

    $4,836 spent
    0% of program spending

  8. Legal services

    $6,663 spent
    0% of program spending

The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,841,492.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($14M)2023 Revenue 83 ($2.9M) Expenses 66 ($2.3M) Net assets 126 ($17M)2024 Revenue 185 ($6.4M) Expenses 84 ($2.9M) Net assets 152 ($21M)2025 Revenue 148 ($5.1M) Expenses 118 ($4.1M) Net assets 159 ($22M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (148)Expenses (118)Net assets (159)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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $26M (+18%).

$18M
$22M
$26M
$26M
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 60% · 2023 19% · 2024 9% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LIFESPAN LOCAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$39k
’22
$558k
’23
$3.5M
’24
$964k
’25
28
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

Lydia Prado

Executive director

Board chair

Jose Esparza

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed5565
Joined·+0+1+0
No longer listed·001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $5.7M → $3.9M.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Trailhead Instituteunclassified
$40k
funders
2
8
9
12
1

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 LOCAL 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 LOCAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

93% 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 LOCAL INC.

66%
largest funder
89%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 43% · 2023 85% — 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

85% of LIFESPAN LOCAL INC'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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Colorado funders.

NY
CO
VA

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

’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LIFESPAN LOCAL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve28.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LIFESPAN LOCAL 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 Colorado

Slow Food Co-Denver82%The Food Bank for Larimer County81%The Growhaus81%The Learning Council81%The Lovve Project80%Healthy Child Care Colorado80%Focus Points Family Resource Center80%Mountain Roots Food Project80%

Nationally

Lifespan Inc82%Slow Food Co-Denver82%Family Service Association of Lincoln81%The Food Bank for Larimer County81%The Growhaus81%The Learning Council81%Montana Land to Hand81%Family Connections Centers80%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

45% of spending goes to programs.

Program 45%Management 55%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Lifespan Local LLC · disregarded
  • Westwood Community & Library Owner's Association · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFESPAN LOCAL 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 LOCAL INC?
LIFESPAN LOCAL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,727,533 to it, the largest being THE DENVER FOUNDATION ($9,086,875). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LIFESPAN LOCAL INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $13,727,533 in grants to LIFESPAN LOCAL INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFESPAN LOCAL INC?
THE DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,086,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFESPAN LOCAL INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 16 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