California · Nonprofit
NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,368,481 to it, the largest being DAVID R CLARE & MARGARET C CLARE FND ($1,978,310). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What North County Lifeline Inc Dba Lifeline Community Services does
Mission
To build partnerships in north san diego county and deliver services to children, families and individuals that resolve problems, increase skills and nurture self-reliance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lifelines behavioral health programs serve students age up to 21 who meet medical necessity requirements according to title 9 of the california code of regulations. Program services are provided primarily on school campuses, in the clients home or at a lifeline clinic, and include individual, group and family therapy; rehabilitation services; medication support; case management brokerage; and crisis intervention as needed. Youth and families are connected with medical, social, rehabilitative, or other community services and support. Additionally, lifeline operates youth substance abuse outpatient treatment services in clinic or school sites with similar criteria as those eligible for mental health services.
$3,876,060 spentof which $71,889 as grants30% of program spendingLifeline operates programs in partnership with law enforcement agencies, schools, cities, and community organizations to prevent juvenile delinquency and deter youth involvement in gangs and drug abuse. The programs serve youth apprehended for minor offenses and misdemeanors and their families by providing counseling, mentoring, parent education, and referrals to appropriate community services.
$4,109,194 spentof which $234,091 as grants32% of program spendingLifeline operates programs in san diego county that provide emergency assistance, financial education, tax preparation support, housing services, and guidance in developing educational and career goals for individuals and families. These programs are intended to promote stability and self-sufficiency by enhancing financial wellness and providing housing support, independent living skills development, and access to mental health services.
$1,971,547 spentof which $534,584 as grants15% of program spendingHuman trafficking prevention & intervention lifeline partners with the san diego county human trafficking task force members and other community partners to provide comprehensive 24-hour response crisis services, ongoing case management and support, and therapeutic services to victims of sex and labour trafficking. Additionally, lifeline provides public awareness education, prevention groups to young people in the region, and training for professionals entering the field of human trafficking.project lifeproject life is an advocacy program that works with victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation of children and labour trafficking. Offers trauma informed services that include victim advocacy, crisis management, safety planning, intensive case management, behavioral health services and trauma specific treatment, peer-led support and emergency housing and residential coordination to men, women and lgbtq-identifying individuals of all ages. Also offers prevention groups and workshops for youth and trainings on human trafficking to raise community awareness and to give community-based providers, first responders, community members the tools they need to identify signs and…
$2,968,980 spentof which $595,871 as grants$54,385 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,925,781.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.4M to $7.0M (+28%).
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 96% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 90% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Lisette Islas
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $817k → $944k.
11 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
33% 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 NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 59% · 2019 52% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 36% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
60% of NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$5.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES
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
79% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lifeline Institute Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,368,481 to it, the largest being DAVID R CLARE & MARGARET C CLARE FND ($1,978,310). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $7,368,481 in grants to NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- DAVID R CLARE & MARGARET C CLARE FND is the largest funder on record, with $1,978,310 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES 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.
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 56 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