Florida · Nonprofit
READY FOR LIFE INC
READY FOR LIFE INC (Florida) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,286,376 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($291,324). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $126k
What Ready for Life Inc does
Mission
Changing lives beyond foster care - ready for life works with youth in foster care as they prepare to transition out of the system to being on their own. The support and services extend until the young adults turn 28 years of age.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth support: to engage foster care youth, private citizens and public resources to assist pinellas county foster care youth in successful transitions to adulthood. The organization's goal is to be a link between the youth and the many resources available to assist them as well as give the youth the voice to help create and run the organization's many programs. The organization continues to advance their expanded services to encompass the entirety of circuit 6, significantly broadening their reach to vulnerable former foster youth in pasco county. Through strategic partnerships with the lead agency for foster care, cdc, other nonprofits serving the area, and key funders, conducted comprehensive needs mapping for former foster youth in pasco county to ensure targeted, evidence-based service delivery. Their proactive outreach to group homes establishes critical connections with youth approaching age 18, ensuring seamless transition into the ready for life program before they exit the foster care system. This preventive approach addresses the urgent need for continuity of support during this vulnerable transition period. Post-18 crisis intervention and life skills support remain…
$1,349,622 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,349,622.
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 2022 to 2023, from $402k to $836k (+108%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of READY FOR LIFE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% 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
Kathy Mize
CEO
Board chair
Mary Pat Mclain
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $92k → $244k.
9 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 READY FOR LIFE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
READY FOR LIFE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
43% 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 READY FOR LIFE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 38% · 2019 21% · 2020 44% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 23% — 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
55% of READY FOR LIFE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
76% of READY FOR LIFE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $582k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
READY FOR LIFE INC has grown faster than half 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 READY FOR LIFE 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 READY FOR LIFE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds READY FOR LIFE INC?
- READY FOR LIFE INC (Florida) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,286,376 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ($291,324). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READY FOR LIFE INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,286,376 in grants to READY FOR LIFE INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READY FOR LIFE INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $291,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READY FOR LIFE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 53 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