Utah · Nonprofit
LIFTING LIVES
LIFTING LIVES (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,238 to it, the largest being The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $538k
- Net assets
- $863k
What Lifting Lives does
Mission
To lift the lives of impoverished individuals in the U.S. and foreign countries primarily Africa and Mexico. Efforts are focused on increasing access to quality education healthcare and assistance in areas of basic human needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lifting Lives Foundation is dedicated to the holistic development of orphaned and vulnerable children, providing stable housing, comprehensive nutrition, and educational support. Our mission centers on mentoring each child toward self-sufficiency and responsible citizenship. Beyond direct care, the Foundation fosters regional economic stability through community-based initiatives, including beekeeping vocational training and entrepreneurial development. The reported travel expenses represent the direct costs of sending volunteer and leadership groups to Kenya to execute our humanitarian service initiatives. These trips are vital for project implementation, local oversight, and ensuring the efficient delivery of aid to the community. All travel is strictly dedicated to fulfilling the organization's exempt purpose, and participants engage exclusively in service-related activities.
$474,103 spent100% of program spendingWhile our primary focus remains in Kenya, we maintain a secondary program to provide targeted emergency assistance, including healthcare access and trauma support, to families in Mexico through a rigorous, committee-based referral process. Only a small portion of the funds are used for the secondary programs.
$1,785 spentof which $1,785 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $475,888.
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 $395k to $888k (+125%).
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.
96% of LIFTING LIVES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $74k → $18k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 LIFTING LIVES’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
LIFTING LIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 49% · 2019 44% · 2020 91% · 2021 45% · 2022 65% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of LIFTING LIVES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
94% of LIFTING LIVES's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LIFTING LIVES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LIFTING LIVES
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFTING LIVES: 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 LIFTING LIVES?
- LIFTING LIVES (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,238 to it, the largest being The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation ($350,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFTING LIVES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $538,238 in grants to LIFTING LIVES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFTING LIVES?
- The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFTING LIVES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 9 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