New Jersey · Nonprofit
LIV LIKE A UNICORN
LIV LIKE A UNICORN (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,851 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $863k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $163k
- Net assets
- $553k
What Liv Like a Unicorn does
Mission
Liv Like a Unicorn walks alongside families facing childhood cancer. Delivering hope through our unicorn box program, providing financial relief during treatment, and supporting pediatric brain cancer research to move us closer to better outcomes and cure.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Unicorn boxes filled with activities, toys, and creature comforts are sent to any child battling cancer throughout the country. Many of these children spend long spans of the time at the hospital or have to be kept isolated because of their weakened immune system. The aimof this program is to provide a smile to children going through treatment. Children will recieve packages throughout the year for things like valentines day, halloween, special events and holiday's. The foundation also supports 13 pediatric hospitals in new jersey and new york by providing toys to hand out to children and fill their playrooms. Not forgetting parents, they provide toiletry bags filled with items they might need for overnight stays.
$176,317 spent37% of program spendingWhen liv founded Liv Like a Unicorn in 2019, the #1 thing she wanted to do was #bethegood and make a difference in the landscapre of pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors. Rather than worry about herself, she continued to focus on helping others dealing with the same diagnosis. In honor of her wish, and to help continue her legacy, we are proud to announce our Liv Like a Unicorn financial assistance program. We ofer financial assistance to qualifying families who have had the devastating diagnosis of pediatric brain canceror spinal cord tumors.
$191,105 spentof which $160,735 as grants40% of program spendingPediatric brain tumors are not the number one cause of death by disease in children. Meaningful change for pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors will come from funding critical research. Liv Like a Unicorn fulfills grants to help establish critical pipeline of therapeutic trials for all stages of the dipg/dmg disease process.
$105,000 spentof which $105,000 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $472,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $232k to $561k (+141%).
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.
104% of LIV LIKE A UNICORN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Emma Edwards
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $25k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 LIV LIKE A UNICORN’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
LIV LIKE A UNICORN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 LIV LIKE A UNICORN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 38% · 2021 60% · 2022 59% · 2023 39% — 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
25% of LIV LIKE A UNICORN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
62% of LIV LIKE A UNICORN'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. Of the $62k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LIV LIKE A UNICORN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LIV LIKE A UNICORN
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 LIV LIKE A UNICORN: 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 LIV LIKE A UNICORN?
- LIV LIKE A UNICORN (New Jersey) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,851 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($25,250). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIV LIKE A UNICORN have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $162,851 in grants to LIV LIKE A UNICORN, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIV LIKE A UNICORN?
- THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIV LIKE A UNICORN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 21 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