North Carolina · Nonprofit
Lives of Purpose Inc
Lives of Purpose Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,573 to it, the largest being TR UW VIVIAN S WEST - WEST MEMORIAL FUND ($53,297). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $294k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $350k
What Lives of Purpose Inc does
Mission
Awaken Coffee is on a mission to employ adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, promoting their skills, confidence and dignity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Organization operated a coffee shop, "Awaken Coffee", which employed special needs individuals as Baristas, Cashiers, Stock Clerks, and other positions where they may realize their full potential.
$368,911 spent$302,494 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $368,911.
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 $291k to $395k (+36%).
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.
32% of Lives of Purpose Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Carol Preston
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $64k → $16k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Lives of Purpose 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Lives of Purpose Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 39% · 2022 62% · 2023 55% — growing more concentrated.
“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
62% of Lives of Purpose Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Lives of Purpose Inc receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $226k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lives of Purpose 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 North Carolina
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lives of Purpose 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 Lives of Purpose Inc?
- Lives of Purpose Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,573 to it, the largest being TR UW VIVIAN S WEST - WEST MEMORIAL FUND ($53,297). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lives of Purpose Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $225,573 in grants to Lives of Purpose Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lives of Purpose Inc?
- TR UW VIVIAN S WEST - WEST MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $53,297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lives of Purpose Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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