New York · Nonprofit
LIFESPIRE INC
LIFESPIRE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $78 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($78). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $78
- Net assets
- $78M
What Lifespire Inc does
Mission
Lifespire, inc's mission is to champion and support people with developmental/intellectual disabilities and their families to realize their goals and dreams. The agency is funded through government programs, consumer contributions and gifts. It is the agency's aim to provide individuals with developmental disabilities the assistance and support necessary to achieve a level of functional behaviors and cognitive skills to enable them to maintain themselves in their community in the most integrated and independent manner possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
1. Morningside IRA location was closed 8/2024; 2. 117th Street IRA location was closed 7/2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Residential services - provide a variety of options, dependent upon the level of assistance needed by each individual. Each facility allows the highest degree of independence. Some of these options include: 1. Intermediate care facilites: offer comprehensive professional residential services and care for adult with multiple disabilities. 2. Community residence: provide structured and supervised community living services. 3. Individualized residential alternatives: innovative residential services individually designed for developmentally disabled adults whose needs may not be met by traditional services.
$57,580,486 spent$61,881,885 earned by the program60% of program spendingWaiver services - offers choices for individualized treatment and training to people with deficits in self care and domestic and independent living skills. Some of these services are: 1. Community habilitation: an in-home trainer helps the individual in the privacy of his/her own home and community to acquire and improve skills in many areas. 2. Day habilitation: day programming which offers training in self-care, domestic, travel and independent livingskills. It provides a unique opportunity to acquire skills in actual community sites. 3. Waiver respite: waiver after-school respite programming offers recreation services to students, children and adults with develpment disabilities; ages 14-21 and over. It uses the combination of specialty instructors and community-based recreation, access top recreational activities in the community through the use of technology to enable them to enjoy leisure time parallel to their non-disabled peers.
$36,272,999 spent$42,292,184 earned by the program38% of program spendingArticle 16 clinic-designed to meet the specific clinical needs of developmentally disabled individuals and to help sustain them in their communities. The clinic provides personal assessment and treatment by professional, fully-accredited practitioners. Some of the services currently provided include: psychological counseling rehabilitation counseling, occupational therapy, nutrition, sexuality counseling, medical examinations and psychiatry.
$1,442,232 spent$1,513,003 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther programs include family support which includes in-home behavior management, crisis intervention. Community habilitation that offers in home and community training.
$934,567 spent$1,253,866 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $96,230,284.
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 2022 to 2023, from $111M to $148M (+33%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2022 11% · 2023 4% · 2024 2% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of LIFESPIRE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Thomas Lydon
President/CEO
Board chair
Michael S Gross
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $24 → $26.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $139k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New York Integrated Network for Persons With Developmental Disabilities). These are real filings, and they are not money LIFESPIRE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LIFESPIRE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LIFESPIRE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LIFESPIRE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 178 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFESPIRE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 5 related entities
- Manhattan Mgt Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Acrmd Residential Facilities Housing Dev · exempt
- Acrmd Community Mental Retardation Svcs · exempt
- Lifespire Services Inc · exempt
- Lifespire Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFESPIRE 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 LIFESPIRE INC?
- LIFESPIRE INC (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $78 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($78). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIFESPIRE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $78 in grants to LIFESPIRE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFESPIRE INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $78 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFESPIRE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 1 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