Florida · Nonprofit
Real Life Children's Ranch Inc
Real Life Children's Ranch Inc (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,673,404 to it, the largest being DERWIN W ARCHAMBAULT TR UTA 05051986 ($1,032,209). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $832k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Real Life Children's Ranch Inc does
Mission
Real Life Childrens Ranchs mission is to provide family style homes that care for children who have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused, homeless and/or neglected.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Foster home - to provide a wholesome christian home life for homeless children and youths from problem homes. The primary aim is to reunite children with their families.
$758,124 spent$719,710 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $758,124.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $3.7M (+34%).
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: 2018 55% · 2019 55% · 2020 27% · 2021 42% · 2022 15% · 2023 40% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Real Life Children's Ranch Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Mark Mayers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $140k → $49k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $874k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Real Life Children's Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Real Life Children's Ranch Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Real Life Children's Ranch 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Real Life Children's Ranch Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 Real Life Children's Ranch Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 37% · 2019 42% · 2020 56% · 2021 76% · 2022 94% · 2023 31% — 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
41% of Real Life Children's Ranch Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
Real Life Children's Ranch Inc draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Real Life Children's Ranch Inc's revenue fell 28% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Real Life Children's Ranch Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $356 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $356
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 Real Life Children's Ranch 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 Real Life Children's Ranch 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 Real Life Children's Ranch Inc?
- Real Life Children's Ranch Inc (Florida) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,673,404 to it, the largest being DERWIN W ARCHAMBAULT TR UTA 05051986 ($1,032,209). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Real Life Children's Ranch Inc have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,673,404 in grants to Real Life Children's Ranch Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Real Life Children's Ranch Inc?
- DERWIN W ARCHAMBAULT TR UTA 05051986 is the largest funder on record, with $1,032,209 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Real Life Children's Ranch 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 23 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