Alabama · Nonprofit
Lifted Higher Ministries
Lifted Higher Ministries (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,087 to it, the largest being NAVIGATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PARTNERS INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $83k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Lifted Higher Ministries does
Mission
Building stronger families to make for strong communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In August of 2025 Lifted Higher Ministries launched a Thrift Store as part of its community outreach efforts. The Thrift Store aims to provide affordable goods to local residents while generating funds to support the organizations charitable programs and services. Through the Thrift Store Lifted Higher Ministries seeks to foster a sense of community promote sustainability through recycling and upcycling and offer volunteer opportunities to individuals looking to contribute to a worthy cause. The store accepts donations of gently used items which are then sold at reasonable prices creating a cycle of giving that benefits both the organization and the community it serves.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Parent Support Program Supervised Visits Transportation Mentoring Meals Housing Support | Parent Support Program; Provides supervised visits mentoring transportation meals and housing support to biological parents involved with DHR and the courts. Trained background checked volunteers supervise visits in safe neutral locations so parents can bond with their children practice healthier parenting skills and work toward reunification. Mentors walk with parents through everyday needs court and DHR appointments medical visits WIC and benefits offices job and school steps budgeting and goal setting using a need based relationship focused approach. Transportation is a major barrier; volunteers completed 1,352 trips in 2025 so parents and children could attend visits hearings and services. Volunteers also shared meals and hospitality including part of the 914 meals for families that restore dignity and connection. The ministry helps parents secure safe housing and then furnishings such as beds tables and linens including access to homes the ministry has purchased for vulnerable families. In 2025 volunteers invested 3,596 hours directly with families through visits mentoring transportation…
$43,158 spent25% of program spendingAdult Protective Services Transportation & Mentoring Program | Serves elderly and vulnerable adults referred primarily by Adult Protective Services SARCOA and other agencies. Volunteers provide transportation to medical appointments pharmacies grocery stores and essential errands so clients can remain as independent and safe as possible. A portion of the 1,352 transportation trips and 137,124 miles in 2025 supported these adults who often have no other reliable transportation. Volunteers also check in deliver groceries and share meals contributing to the 914 meals provided and reducing isolation and neglect. Using the same needs based mentoring model as with families volunteers spend time in clients homes build trust encourage healthy routines and communicate concerns to referring agencies. These activities account for part of the 3,596 volunteer hours in 2025 and include advocacy when clients must transition to new living situations. The programs objective is to protect vulnerable adults improve quality of life and allow them to live with dignity and consistent relational support.
$43,477 spent$45,517 earned by the program26% of program spendingHousing Opportunities and Family Support | Provides practical supports that remove barriers to reunification and long term family stability. The ministry assists parents in identifying and obtaining safe affordable housing and then helps furnish homes with donated or purchased essentials such as beds tables washers and dryers towels and linens. The organization has also purchased homes for vulnerable families including rent to own options that promote stability and future homeownership. Milestone celebrations offer connection for families impacted by foster care; a portion of the 914 meals provided in 2025 were meals for children siblings and parents often at restaurants where the ministry covers costs and transportation while encouraging parents to participate. Additional support includes shared meals groceries and ongoing contact after reunification so families do not feel alone once cases close. These supports represent part of the 3,596 volunteer hours invested in 2025 and are closely integrated with transportation and mentoring efforts all aimed at helping families create safe nurturing homes.
$45,792 spentof which $44,680 as grants27% of program spendingOther Program Services Needs Based Mentoring Model and Community Partnerships | The ministry strengthens its core mission by developing a structured needs based mentoring model and collaborating with community partners churches and businesses. Its mentoring framework emphasizes engagement teaching life skills structured goal setting advocacy with community resources and continuous assessment. This model guides all work with parents children and elderly adults helping volunteers provide focused long term support rather than one time relief. The organization is a referral based agency and coordinates closely with DHR SARCOA CASA local nonprofits and churches to avoid duplication and ensure comprehensive care. It recruits and trains volunteers from multiple congregations and engages businesses and donors to provide furnishings meals transportation and special assistance for families and elderly clients. Emerging efforts include expanded mentoring for justice involved women enhanced volunteer recruitment and fundraising teams and deeper partnerships around employment and homeownership support. These activities underpin and expand the impact of the primary programs described on lines…
$37,838 spent22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,265.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $101k to $134k (+32%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Lifted Higher Ministries’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Brandee Lukas
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $6k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Lifted Higher Ministries’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Lifted Higher Ministries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Lifted Higher Ministries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Lifted Higher Ministries's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 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
Lifted Higher Ministries has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lifted Higher Ministries
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lifted Higher Ministries: 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 Lifted Higher Ministries?
- Lifted Higher Ministries (Alabama) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $83,087 to it, the largest being NAVIGATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PARTNERS INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lifted Higher Ministries have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $83,087 in grants to Lifted Higher Ministries, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lifted Higher Ministries?
- NAVIGATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lifted Higher Ministries find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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