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NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES

NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES (California) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,311,981 to it, the largest being DAVID R CLARE & MARGARET C CLARE FOUNDATION C/O PORZIO BROMBERG & NEWMAN ($1,978,310). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
55
Funders on record
$7.3M
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
30/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES has grown faster than half of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.3M) Expenses 100 ($7.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 122 ($10M) Expenses 123 ($9.8M) Net assets 111 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 132 ($11M) Expenses 132 ($10M) Net assets 127 ($3.9M)2020 Revenue 157 ($13M) Expenses 155 ($12M) Net assets 149 ($4.6M)2021 Revenue 170 ($14M) Expenses 178 ($14M) Net assets 147 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 171 ($14M) Expenses 166 ($13M) Net assets 182 ($5.6M)2023 Revenue 181 ($15M) Expenses 207 ($16M) Net assets 139 ($4.3M)2024 Revenue 198 ($16M) Expenses 213 ($17M) Net assets 117 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 193 ($16M) Expenses 206 ($16M) Net assets 107 ($3.3M)
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Revenue (193)Expenses (206)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$365k
17
$348k
18
$469k
19
$678k
20
$49k
21
$1.1M
22
$1.4M
23
$501k
24
$352k
25
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $817k → $944k.

11 of 55 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 55 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.

27%
largest funder
55%
top three
~8
effective funders

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

45% of NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

MN
WI
NY
NV
OH
NJ
CA
VA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 55 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$7.5M
grants $7.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

CA

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 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,311,981 to it, the largest being DAVID R CLARE & MARGARET C CLARE FOUNDATION C/O PORZIO BROMBERG & NEWMAN ($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 55 organizations giving $7,311,981 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 FOUNDATION C/O PORZIO BROMBERG & NEWMAN 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 55funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing