California · Nonprofit
LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION
LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $395 to it, the largest being Caplin Foundation ($300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $395
- Net assets
- $312k
What Listen4life Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to inspire and empower musicians of all cultures to use their gifts in the service of others through our wide range of projects, productions, programs and partners, we impact the lives of people across the usa and the world.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
People's Choir of Oakland (ListenForLife.org/PCO) : new, fiscally sponsored project of LFL, co-founded by opera legend Frederica von Stade and opera singer/film producer Nicolle Foland. Project mission is to provide choral training/singing experiences to unhoused people throughout the Oakland Bay Area (California). Scheduled 2021 group rehearsals and performances were all cancelled/postponed due to Covid restrictions in Bay Area. But much was accomplished in terms of creating the operations/artistic team, infrastructure, rehearsal locations, and establishing a reliable funding base (individual donors and grants).
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $667k to $614k (−8%).
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.
100% of LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $43 → $11.
1 of 2 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 LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION’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
LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95 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
LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,119 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
Organizations like LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION: 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 LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION?
- LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $395 to it, the largest being Caplin Foundation ($300). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $395 in grants to LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION?
- Caplin Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LISTEN4LIFE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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