Michigan · Nonprofit
Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund
Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,573 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,255). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $625k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $466k
What Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund does
Mission
To educate and provide goods in the community in order to promote respect for innocent human life from conception to natural death, especially those who would be victims of abortion and euthanasia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Fewer students attended that annual March for Life in Washington D.C., so chartered fewer busses.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Publishing, printing, and mailing of a monthly newsletter reaches over 4000 people directly, and is available to the public on line or our website. The annual Resource Book was published and distributed at the annual dinner. The organization continues to display billboards in the Metro area promoting respect for human life. New faith commun- ties participate in displaying 2000 Crosses on their grounds in awareness of children lost to abortion.
$105,519 spent19% of program spendingThree offices serving three counties are open daily for our members, service groups, and the public. The Main office houses the Wee Care program that provides clothing and supplies for newborn, and educa- tional materials for mothers. We served over 450 families. This program also hosts Baby Showers held in the communities at various churches. The Youth Director(s) serve at the chapter offices. Educational seminars, conferences are made availabe to students to attend. Communications to students and those in student leadership postions are frequent and relevant to our mission.
$427,773 spent76% of program spendingThe annual March for Life in Washington D.C. in January is open to all High School student in the tri-county area. The Youth Director facil- itates this event for students who register. Promotion and preparation include securing charter buses, food and lodging, and supervision and chaperones. The organizaion and its members often sponsor attendance for individual students who would not otherwise attend.
$30,878 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $564,170.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $309k to $472k (+53%).
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.
72% of Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $350 → $24k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund’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
Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
58% 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 Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 80% · 2022 76% · 2023 53% — 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
58% of Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund'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 $89k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund is better cushioned than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Right to Life - Lifespan Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund?
- Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,573 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($122,255). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $212,573 in grants to Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $122,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Right to Life - Lifespan Educational Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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