Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LIFT INC
LIFT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,597,084 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,169,700). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 179
- Grants received
- $52M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Lift Inc does
Mission
Lift's mission is to break the cycle of poverty by investing in parents. We build families' well-being, financial strength, and social connections to lift two generations at once.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Founded in 1998, lift, inc is a national nonprofit on a mission to break the cycle of poverty by investing in parents. Decades of inequity and underinvestment in communities have kept low-income families trapped in a cycle that, like wealth, is passed down from generation to generation. All families deserve a better future - no matter their race, ethnicity, or zip code. Lift builds families' well-being, financial strength, and social connections to lift two generations at once - an investment of hope, money, and love. Rooted in a relationship filled with dignity and trust, lift's one-on-one coaching program empowers parents to set and achieve goals - such as going back to school, improving credit, eliminating debt, or securing a living wage that put their families on the path to (continued on schedule o)economic mobility. As part of its investment in families, in 2018, lift launched the family goal fund which provides direct, unrestricted cash to families. Lift reduces stress and increases financial slack by giving cash directly to parents so that they don't have to choose between their emergency needs and long-term goals. As parents persist through lift's two-year program, they…
$7,999,711 spentof which $404,280 as grants$299,040 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,999,711.
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 2023 to 2024, from $17M to $23M (+40%).
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 3% · 2018 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of LIFT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 69 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $7.0M.
30 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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: $2.3M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Crimson Lion Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LIFT INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LIFT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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 LIFT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 14% · 2023 18% — 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
40% of LIFT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
LIFT INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
LIFT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFT 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFT 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 LIFT INC?
- LIFT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,597,084 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($16,169,700). 102 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFT INC have?
- IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $51,597,084 in grants to LIFT INC, 102 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $16,169,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 179 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