Utah · Nonprofit
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,592 to it, the largest being Dever Family Foundation ($429,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $633k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $937k
- Net assets
- $256k
What Live Like Sam Foundation does
Mission
Live like sam honors the short life and legacy of sam jackenthal by inspiring youth from all backgrounds to develop self-awareness, courage, leadership, kindness, and joy through life-skills training and character development. We are committed to strengthening the development of local youth with our programs and scholarships to foster a dedication to service to others ... Like sam lived.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To address the urgent mental health needs in summit county, live like sam achieved significant milestones in fy2024 by scaling up its programs and documenting measurable outcomes across its key focus areas. - thrive program: our evidence-based thrive program has shown remarkable results. Participants experienced a 25% decrease in anxiety, a 21% decrease in depressive symptoms, and a 7% increase in resilience and 5% increase in quality of life within just six weeks. - sages & seekers mentorship: in partnership with local libraries, this multi-week mentorship program successfully connected teens with senior citizens. This initiative helped bridge the generational gap, providing teens with trusted, non-parental mentors. - challenge accepted: successfully launched the challenge accepted teen- meetup program, hosting unique new activities to promote social connection and getting out of comfort zones. - elementary school programs: through fun and engaging activities, we empower k-5 students to develop strong character, teamwork, and kindness. These skills will help them dream big, overcome challenges, build meaningful connections, and thrive. - summer camp well-being skills: integrated…
$482,270 spentof which $4,023 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $482,270.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $371k to $290k (−22%).
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: 2021 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Ben Rifkin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $67k → $215k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 LIKE SAM 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
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 LIKE SAM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% · 2023 47% — 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
83% of LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LIVE LIKE SAM 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIVE LIKE SAM 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 LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION?
- LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $936,592 to it, the largest being Dever Family Foundation ($429,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $936,592 in grants to LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION?
- Dever Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $429,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 24 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