California · Nonprofit
LIVE IN PEACE
LIVE IN PEACE (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,503,571 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,967,850). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $796k
What Live in Peace does
Mission
Live in Peace is an east palo alto-based organization committed to advancing the cultural, educational, and economic empowerment of youth in communities of color. We fulfill this mission by building a strong family atmosphere that supports our youth in the following three program areas: the lip studio (arts adn culture), the college initiative (education), and the street code academy (technology and economics). In each program, we help our students discover, develop, and direct their creative genius for the benefit of their community and the broader world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
College Initiative Success Rates: Achieved a high level of persistence with 120 college graduates and an 88% completion rate. Financial Support: Distributed over $800,000 in scholarships during the year to open doors for higher education and multigenerationalchange. Legacy Building: Currently supporting 100+ active scholarship recipients, many of whom are first-generation students, inspiring theiryounger siblings to follow in their footsteps.
$751,332 spentof which $561,747 as grants$740,500 earned by the program33% of program spendingSWAG High School Program Academic Excellence: Achieved a remarkable 99% graduation rate, resulting in 314 high school graduates. Relentless Support: Provided intensive mentoring, tutoring, and life coaching to help disengaged youth navigate personal challengesand reclaim their futures.
$717,227 spentof which $868 as grants$229,163 earned by the program32% of program spendingBike Shop Vocational Training: Provided student apprentices with their first job experiences, teaching critical hands-on skills in bike mechanicsand repair. Community Service: Repaired or donated 1,103 bikes at little to no cost, building both trade skills for the students and accessibletransportation for the community.
$418,915 spent$156,555 earned by the program18% of program spendingGAP (Guided Achievement Pathways) Workforce Readiness: As the only program of its kind in East Palo Alto, it successfully equipped young adults for careers in tradesand entrepreneurship. Employment Outcomes: Celebrated 40 graduates through the trades, with over 75% of participants either employed, enrolled, orcertified within a year of participation. Current Impact: Currently has 35 graduates actively employed in professional trades.
$179,362 spentof which $13,600 as grants$177,704 earned by the program8% of program spendingTechStyle Labz Bridging the Divide: Served as a first-of-its-kind technology and design hub, offering workshops in VR, AI, and design to 150 peopleweekly. Intergenerational Innovation: Fostered future-focused learning by serving both youth and seniors, bridging digital and generationalgaps through hands-on creative production.
$90,509 spent$1,086 earned by the program4% of program spendingJuvenile Hall Initiative System Expansion: Significantly deepened impact within the justice system, serving 45 young people daily inside San Mateo CountyJuvenile Hall. Comprehensive Reentry: Launched a new Workforce Development and Job Placement program specifically for justice-impactedyouth ages 1624, supported by the Amity Foundation. Holistic Coaching: Delivered in-custody programming including mentorship and workplace readiness training, paired with postreleaseacademic coaching and employment placement to reduce recidivism.
$78,944 spent$388,867 earned by the program3% of program spendingVarious Other Programs
$35,206 spentof which $15,878 as grants$53,798 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,271,495.
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 2019 to 2020, from $237k to $1.3M (+450%).
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: 2017 50% · 2018 41% · 2019 21% · 2020 16% · 2021 27% · 2022 36% · 2023 41% · 2024 7% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of LIVE IN PEACE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $571k → $1.1M.
16 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 LIVE IN PEACE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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
LIVE IN PEACE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 LIVE IN PEACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 22% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of LIVE IN PEACE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
79% of LIVE IN PEACE'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 $2.3M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
LIVE IN PEACE's revenue grew 89% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIVE IN PEACE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LIVE IN PEACE: 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 LIVE IN PEACE?
- LIVE IN PEACE (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,503,571 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,967,850). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LIVE IN PEACE have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $10,503,571 in grants to LIVE IN PEACE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVE IN PEACE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,967,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVE IN PEACE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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