Washington · Nonprofit
LifeWire
LifeWire (Washington) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,647,475 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,573,638). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 100
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $8.8M
What LifeWire does
Mission
Our mission is to end domestic violence by changing individual, institutional and societal beliefs, attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate it. To achieve this we work with the community to provide services in east and north king county for people who have experienced physical, emotional or sexual abuse; and prevent domestic violence through advocacy, education and support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Survivor advocacy services: one-on-one support to survivors of domestic violence. The program encompasses safety planning; resource referral; legal advocacy (for protection orders, parenting plans, divorce etc.); support groups for adults, teens, and children; domestic violence education; and economic and community stabilization assistance. Survivor advocacy services works with survivors who contact us directly either personally or through our 24-hour helpline and who are referred from hospitals, dshs, law enforcement and other service providers. We also provide one-on-one support for survivors through the legal system by partnering with community organizations and pro-bono attorneys to support survivors as they navigate the legal entanglements necessitated by domestic violence. We provide trauma-informed, survivor-driven services.
$2,275,946 spentof which $374,248 as grants38% of program spendingRental assistance, rapid rehousing, and housing stability: these programs provide financial assistance and support services for families in non-time-limited housing. Safety planning, support groups, legal advocacy services, children's services, crisis support services, referrals, and domestic violence education information and support remain available to participants in these programs. The rapid rehousing and housing stability programs provide flexible financial assistance with individualized housing and support services focused on obtaining and/or maintaining housing, as well as homelessness prevention efforts.
$1,741,968 spentof which $671,307 as grants29% of program spendingTransitional shelter: my friend's place provides confidential transitional housing to survivors experiencing both domestic violence and chemical use for up to 24 months. Safety planning, support groups, legal advocacy services, children's services, and chemical use counseling services are provided on site to residents during their stay.
$879,437 spentof which $182,238 as grants15% of program spendingEmergency housing: my sister's home is an emergency, confidential shelter that provides interim housing and supportive services for families and/or individuals in the most dangerous situations. Safety planning, support groups, legal advocacy services, children's services, crisis support services, referrals, and domestic violence education information and support are provided to residents during their stay. In addition, the hotel motel voucher program provides families and/or individuals supportive services and emergency housing in a hotel or motel for short-term stays. 24 hour helpline: 24/7 year round gateway to all services. Advocate staffed to provide support listening, safety planning, domestic violence education, referrals to community resources, and intake into services. Mental health counseling: individual mental health therapy for adult, youth, and child survivors of domestic violence. Community engagement and prevention: resource and catalyst for social change in the community. LifeWire leads social change efforts through innovative community partnerships and collaborations; by educating community leaders, educators and students about domestic violence and healthy…
$1,115,512 spentof which $136,712 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,012,863.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.3M to $16M (+265%).
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 54% · 2018 51% · 2019 54% · 2020 46% · 2021 53% · 2022 50% · 2023 65% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of LifeWire’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Theresa Anderson
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $422k → $1.2M.
14 of 100 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LifeWire’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 100 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
LifeWire has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 LifeWire.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 51% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 18% · 2023 39% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of LifeWire's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
93% of LifeWire's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Against its field
LifeWire is better cushioned than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LifeWire receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
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 LifeWire
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 1 related entity
- Hope Starts Here · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LifeWire?
- LifeWire (Washington) receives grants from 100 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,647,475 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,573,638). 68 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LifeWire have?
- IRS filings report 100 organizations giving $10,647,475 in grants to LifeWire, 68 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LifeWire?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,573,638 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LifeWire find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 100 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