California · Nonprofit
MLife
MLife (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,864 to it, the largest being Rugged Elegance Foundation ($218,810). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $211k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $44k
What MLife does
Mission
To inspire an expansive and robust way of practicing spirituality, and promote the intersectionality of arts, education, faith and technology in San Francisco and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The youth stipends via The Healing Circle Program (HCP) About 24 youth took part in this program in 2025. This program is equipping young Black men and women with the tools they need to break the cycles of trauma, gun violence, and low educational achievement that often plague their communities in the United States.
$95,338 spent71% of program spendingRelief Aid for People in Despair - RAPID program. MLIFE continued to partner with MBH Medical Center to bring accessible health services to the underserved. The hospital served about 150 patients.
$24,627 spent18% of program spendingLeaders of Openness, Virtue, and Empathy (MLOVE) 15 Scholars graduated from the MLOVE Program. MLOVE Program supports high-impact, high-potential navigators ages 25-34 to start a business or find employment through a 5-module training program encompassing leadership, communication, entrepreneurship, fundraising, and mindfulness.
$13,625 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,590.
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 2024 to 2025, from $6k to $93k (+1399%).
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 MLife’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $15k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MLife’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
MLife leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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% · 2023 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
MLife draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54 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
MLife runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MLife
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MLife: 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 MLife?
- MLife (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,864 to it, the largest being Rugged Elegance Foundation ($218,810). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MLife have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $218,864 in grants to MLife, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MLife?
- Rugged Elegance Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $218,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MLife 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 2021–2025), 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