Missouri · Nonprofit
Restoring Lifeways
Restoring Lifeways (Missouri) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,154,761 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,608,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $9.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Restoring Lifeways does
Mission
The mission of Restoring Lifeways was to build a network of material interpersonal and spiritual support around leaders and communities practicing both traditional and emergent forms of cultural healing and regeneration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We partnered with a donor advised fund to distribute grants to a cohort of charitable exempt organizations.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
As a fiscal sponsor Youth Passageways YPW serves as an interface with governmental and philanthropic entities for an individual or projects work accepting and administering funds in collaboration with them. Fiscal sponsorship at YPW gives individuals and groups a 501c3 non-profit home allowing them to focus on their work while YPW helps to manage financial HR and legal elements. This helps give projects the room they need to make their impact on the world.
$4,742,342 spentof which $4,262,342 as grants89% of program spendingYouth Passageways will also sponsor conferences retreats and gatherings approximately 12 per year initially throughout the United States on topics related to rites of passage their efficacy and their importance as part of comprehensive youth and community development efforts. These gatherings varying in size depending on specific outcomes and organizational capacity will both seek to provide training and educational experiences for participants as well as provide an opportunity to cultivate broader public awareness through engagement with the general public in the locale in which they are held. These are and will be funded through individual donations foundation grants and gathering fees. These activities are and will be funded through individual donations membership fees and foundation grants. They are accomplished by staff [as of now contractors as well as volunteers]
$325,212 spent$152,527 earned by the program6% of program spendingThe primary activity of Youth Passageways YPW is to increase broad public awareness educate the public about the importance of initiatory experiences for young people and increase access to initiatory experiences for young people through the development and dissemination of internet-based resources. YPW creates and disseminates resources on youth development rites of passage and related topics for youth workers educators social workers parents and the broad public. These resources include content rich biweekly blog posts a regular newsletter and we will soon add an online journal. These resources are freely available to any and all interested parties with the express purpose of creating broader public awareness of and access to initiatory experiences for young people. We will increasingly work to make resources relevant to young people themselves. Additionally YPW has created and is now actively maintaining and growing a user friendly searchable website of initiatory experiences for young people. This database offers youth parents and others a central database of rite of passage experiences increasing access to a broad range of offerings. This website also houses general…
$280,000 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,347,554.
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 $415k to $897k (+116%).
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 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Restoring Lifeways’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. 4 of the last 8 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $21k → $4.8M.
17 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Restoring Lifeways’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
Restoring Lifeways leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 Restoring Lifeways.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 39% · 2021 40% · 2022 61% · 2023 66% — 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
8% of Restoring Lifeways's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
74% of Restoring Lifeways's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
Restoring Lifeways has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Restoring Lifeways
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Restoring Lifeways: 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 Restoring Lifeways?
- Restoring Lifeways (Missouri) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,154,761 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($3,608,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Restoring Lifeways have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $9,154,761 in grants to Restoring Lifeways, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Restoring Lifeways?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,608,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Restoring Lifeways find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 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