Georgia · Nonprofit
LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC
LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16
- Net assets
- $70k
What Lion Life Community Inc does
Mission
Lion Life Community offers innovative education programs to the incarcerated and reintegrating population of North Georgia with the aim of redeeming time served and fostering healthy community. Our mission is to equip individuals with practical skills and new mindsets through a hybrid curriculum of traditional education and exposure to the creative arts. We currently offer eight different educational programs that include General Education Diploma (G.E.D.) Certification, English as A Second Language Course, Continuing Education Preparation, Entrepreneurship, Freedom from Addiction, Music, Creative Writing, and a Literacy Initiative. These courses will not only change lives, but contribute to the safety and betterment of our community as a whole. We believe in education for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our in-jail programs reached over 1,500 individuals. We currently offer eight different educational programs that include General Education Diploma (G.E.D.) Certification, English as A Second Language Course, Continuing Education Preparation, Entrepreneurship, Freedom from Addiction, Music, Creative Writing, and a Literacy Initiative. Our library inside the facility was accessed by 1,316 different people, resulting in over 49,500 hours of reading in 2025. We helped 25 students receive their official General Education Diploma (GED) and 42 others make plans for continued education in our College Workshop. Our Entrepreneurship program helped 67 students complete business plans, understand best financial practices, and learn basic marketing techniques. 211 Creative Writing students wrote multiple full-length novels, plays, and poetry. We helped improve the English speaking skills of 128 students in our ESL Course, a program which received contributions for improvement by an official partnership with the Honors College at Kennesaw State University. Our Freedom from Addiction students have found support through mentorship as they have been equipped to find true lasting freedom in…
$173,132 spent$192,504 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $173,132.
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 $35k to $0 (−100%).
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.
12% of LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Brody Smithwick
President, Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 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
LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC runs a healthier operating margin 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 LION LIFE COMMUNITY 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LION LIFE COMMUNITY 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 LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC?
- LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16 in grants to LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LION LIFE COMMUNITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 1 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