Iowa · Nonprofit
ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION
ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,247,610 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($640,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What On With Life Foundation does
Mission
Supporting on with life's network of brain rehabilitation programs helping persons served get on with their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose and objectives of the foundation is to solicit and manage gifts of money and property for the exclusive purpose of granting gifts to on with life, and affiliates.
$2,260,296 spentof which $2,260,296 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,260,296.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $2.2M (−57%).
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 15% · 2018 41% · 2023 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $20k → $218k.
7 of 25 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 ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 88% · 2019 63% · 2020 46% · 2021 30% · 2022 54% · 2023 46% — 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
70% of ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
99% of ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $496k 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
ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ON WITH LIFE 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- On With Life Extended Services Ltd · exempt
- On With Life Supportive Housing Cor · exempt
- On With Life Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ON WITH LIFE 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 ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION?
- ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,247,610 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($640,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,247,610 in grants to ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION?
- GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES is the largest funder on record, with $640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ON WITH LIFE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing