Oklahoma · Nonprofit
RESTORING LIVES INC
RESTORING LIVES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,196 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC ($96,471). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $128k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Restoring Lives Inc does
Mission
Financial support for continued education through scholarship, back to school assistance, tutoring and community mental and physical health/wellness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Financial support for continued education through scholarship, back to school assistance, tutoring and community mental and physical health/wellness.
$0 spentof which $4,917 as grants
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $6k to $100k (+1517%).
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.
63% of RESTORING LIVES 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Shenita Jones
Chief executive director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $2k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 LIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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 LIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 LIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 73% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
97% of RESTORING LIVES INC's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 LIVES INC's revenue fell 82% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like RESTORING LIVES 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RESTORING LIVES 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 RESTORING LIVES INC?
- RESTORING LIVES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,196 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC ($96,471). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESTORING LIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $128,196 in grants to RESTORING LIVES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESTORING LIVES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL OKLAHOMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESTORING LIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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