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Lift for Life Gym Inc

Lift for Life Gym Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,686 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($264,620). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$829k
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$890k
28/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 49%
01What it does

What Lift for Life Gym Inc does

Mission

The mission of Lift For Life Gym is to offer St. Louis children a safe, enriching environment in which to strengthen their bodies, enrich their minds, develop healthy social relationships, and learn to make positive life choices.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Gym/Fitness - The organization provides fitness services including olympic-style weight lifting, stamina, strength, power lifting, core and cardio, and team sports.

    $523,564 spent
    92% of program spending
  2. Nutrition Program - The organization provides an evening cafe, serving more than 13,000 nutritious dinners per year.

    $45,060 spent
    8% of program spending
  3. Mentoring & Family Emergency Relief Program - The organization provides Saturday Teen Mentoring Outings and a family emergency relief program.

    $3,320 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $571,944.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($545k) Expenses 100 ($511k) Net assets 100 ($299k)2018 Revenue 99 ($540k) Expenses 104 ($533k) Net assets 102 ($306k)2019 Revenue 90 ($491k) Expenses 102 ($521k) Net assets 92 ($276k)2020 Revenue 102 ($557k) Expenses 90 ($461k) Net assets 125 ($372k)2021 Revenue 107 ($586k) Expenses 82 ($419k) Net assets 180 ($539k)2022 Revenue 144 ($783k) Expenses 114 ($582k) Net assets 248 ($740k)2023 Revenue 163 ($888k) Expenses 149 ($759k) Net assets 291 ($869k)2024 Revenue 140 ($761k) Expenses 150 ($764k) Net assets 289 ($865k)2025 Revenue 152 ($829k) Expenses 158 ($805k) Net assets 298 ($890k)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (158)Net assets (298)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 2022 to 2023, from $799k to $1.0M (+31%).

$363k
$365k
$361k
$453k
$567k
$799k
$1.0M
$980k
$1.0M
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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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of Lift for Life Gym Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$7k
’18
−$30k
’19
$96k
’20
$167k
’21
$201k
’22
$129k
’23
−$4k
’24
$25k
’25
4.9
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.

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Listed15169111214131012
Joined·+2+0+3+3+2+3+0+2
No longer listed·17120430
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $80k → $363k.

11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Lift for Life Gym Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

Lift for Life Gym Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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

56% 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 Lift for Life Gym Inc.

14%
largest funder
35%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 35% · 2019 45% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 31% — broadly stable.

“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

55% of Lift for Life Gym Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

54% of Lift for Life Gym Inc's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

VT
MN
IL
NY
MO
MD
TX
FL

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

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $682k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Lift for Life Gym Inc's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Lift for Life Gym 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 Missouri

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 11%Fundraising 18%

Governance

12
board members
83%
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lift for Life Gym Inc?
Lift for Life Gym Inc (Missouri) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,825,686 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($264,620). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lift for Life Gym Inc have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,825,686 in grants to Lift for Life Gym Inc, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lift for Life Gym Inc?
ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $264,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lift for Life Gym Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 39 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