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LIFEWELL

LIFEWELL (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($105,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.4M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$105k
Net assets
$12M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Lifewell does

Mission

Lifewell's mission is to ensure access to safe, affordable housing and supportive resources that enable individuals with serious mental illness and other disabling conditions to live independently and successfully within their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

Effective october 1, 2024, Lifewell became a subsidiary of terros, inc. D/b/a terros health. As part of the transaction, Lifewell transferred its clinical operations, including outpatient, direct care, and residential treatment services, to terros health. Lifewell's ongoing activities are focused on the ownership, operation, and management of affordable and supportive housing for individuals with behavioral health and other disabling conditions.

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

  1. Lifewell provides housing operations and property management services that support safe, affordable, and stable housing for adults with serious mental illness (smi), visual impairments, substance use disorders, and co-occurring conditions. Services include tenant placement, lease administration, occupancy management, housing inspections, maintenance coordination, compliance oversight, and collaboration with clinical and community partners to promote housing stability, independence, and successful tenancy. Housing support staff are available 24/7 to address housing-related needs.

    $3,199,694 spent$4,180,161 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,199,694.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($37M) Expenses 100 ($38M) Net assets 100 ($22M)2018 Revenue 108 ($40M) Expenses 107 ($40M) Net assets 100 ($22M)2019 Revenue 127 ($47M) Expenses 119 ($45M) Net assets 111 ($24M)2021 Revenue 132 ($49M) Expenses 112 ($42M) Net assets 147 ($32M)2022 Revenue 123 ($46M) Expenses 122 ($46M) Net assets 144 ($31M)2023 Revenue 111 ($42M) Expenses 124 ($47M) Net assets 120 ($26M)2024 Revenue 108 ($41M) Expenses 117 ($44M) Net assets 103 ($22M)2025 Revenue 12 ($4.4M) Expenses 10 ($3.9M) Net assets 57 ($12M)
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Revenue (12)Expenses (10)Net assets (57)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $43M to $16M (−62%).

$34M
$34M
$37M
$53M
$55M
$49M
$43M
$16M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 13% · 2025 1%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$516k
’17
$14k
’18
$2.2M
’19
$6.9M
’21
−$513k
’22
−$5.5M
’23
−$3.9M
’24
$483k
’25
1.6
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

Karen Hoffman Tepper

President/CEO of terros

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed1814132317201919
Joined·+4+2·+8+11+7+10
No longer listed·83·148810
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
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'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LIFEWELL’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 LIFEWELL's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

AZ

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

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’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like LIFEWELL

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Terros Inc · exempt
  • Triple R Community Housing I Inc · exempt
  • Desert Esparanza · exempt
  • Desert Sol · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFEWELL: 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 LIFEWELL?
LIFEWELL (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105,000 to it, the largest being Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust ($105,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIFEWELL have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $105,000 in grants to LIFEWELL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIFEWELL?
Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIFEWELL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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