Illinois · Nonprofit
PRIZE4LIFE INC
PRIZE4LIFE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $271,250 to it, the largest being AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ($271,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $59
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $0
What Prize4life Inc does
Mission
To accelerate discovery of treatments and a cure for als.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Prize4life is an innovative "results-based not-for-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the discovery of treatments and a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a progressive neurodegenerative disease, by using powerful incentives to attract new people and drive innovation. On may 30, 2018, the board of directors voted to dissolve the organization after 11+ years of operation, the awarding of two, $1m prizes and $125k in additional smaller prizes and the successful launch of several tools and programs to support the als research community. Upon a strategic review of the als landscape in late 2017/early 2018, it was determined that the the als association was successfully operating a research funding program that targeted the biggest gap in the drug discovery process. The board assessed that the remaining prize4life funds could be most efficiently put to use via this program. The majority of the organization's total expenses in 2018 were used to administer the dissolution process with the state of massachusetts and wind down operations
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $316k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $109k → $54k.
From the IRS filings of PRIZE4LIFE 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.
Where its funders are
PRIZE4LIFE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like PRIZE4LIFE 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
70%
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 PRIZE4LIFE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PRIZE4LIFE INC?
- PRIZE4LIFE INC (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $271,250 to it, the largest being AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ($271,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIZE4LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $271,250 in grants to PRIZE4LIFE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIZE4LIFE INC?
- AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN is the largest funder on record, with $271,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIZE4LIFE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Prize4life →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 1 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