California · Nonprofit
REAL LIFE SKILLS INC
REAL LIFE SKILLS INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,000 to it, the largest being Westminster Manor of San Diego Inc ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Real Life Skills Inc does
Mission
Our purpose is to restore hope to those dealing with life challenges, resurrect lost self-esteem, and re-ignite the desire to become the best version of themselves. We do this by teaching a self-improvement program in eight dynamic one hour classes on the power of thinking and provide a clear understanding of how life choices are made. This introduces a new valuable education experience, utilizing the cognitive behavior theory approach for those in need focused on developing a new mindset that can provide a path to a better life. Our strategic focus is directed to help agencies that serve the homeless, the homeless in transition, parolees, drug & alcohol recovery, transitional youth, and low -income families seeking better job opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
2025 Accomplishments 1.Introduced a new Model to scale real life skills concepts to reach a larger audience with agencies in the community. It is a Train-the Trainer Model designed for community organizations. Rather than relying only on RealLife Skills staff to teach every class, the agencies would equip trusted voices inside partner agencies to teach the curriculum in-house. RLS would provide teaching skills and curriculum to certify trainers With certification the concepts would be taught to staff and to those they serve along with their existing programs. 2. A Life skills course was taught at David Harps Foundation to a staff of 18 mentors. This organization is a successful community organization helping homeless youth achieve academic success though music education, sound engineering and multimedia production leading to jobs and self sufficiency. A staff member was selected to become the first certified trainer for the Train-the Trainer program. In a short time the trainer began teaching life skills concepts to new transitional youth coming into the organization.. 3.In November we were pleased to have hired Dr. Stephanie Murphy to provide leadership as our new Program…
$55,300 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $55,300.
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 2021 to 2022, from $108k to $77k (−28%).
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.
49% of REAL LIFE SKILLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
James Robins
Executive Director, Program Director & Facilitator
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $24k.
From the IRS filings of REAL LIFE SKILLS 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 SKILLS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 SKILLS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 87% · 2022 83% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of REAL LIFE SKILLS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
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.
Against its field
REAL LIFE SKILLS INC has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like REAL LIFE SKILLS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds REAL LIFE SKILLS INC?
- REAL LIFE SKILLS INC (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,000 to it, the largest being Westminster Manor of San Diego Inc ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REAL LIFE SKILLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $108,000 in grants to REAL LIFE SKILLS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REAL LIFE SKILLS INC?
- Westminster Manor of San Diego Inc is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REAL LIFE SKILLS INC 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.
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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 2 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