Illinois · Nonprofit
SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP
SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,930 to it, the largest being DOUG HOLLIDAY MINISTRIES INC ($167,297). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $94k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Sonlife Classic Nfp does
Mission
Sonlife Classic provides leadership coaching/mentoring, training events for church leaders, and disciple-making resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In January 2025, Sonlife relaunched the Disciple-Making Conference with near 200 people attending. In June, we trained at two youth evangelism training events in Chicago and Toronto. Throughout the year the team members were faithfully trained and coached around the US and Canada. Team members attended a number of conferences to promote Sonlife's training and coaching. We ended the year with 12 team members dedicated to Sonlife's vision for the next 10 years to train and coach 16k youth ministry groups in the US and Canada.
$77,345 spent$2,446 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,345.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $379k to $105k (−72%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 6% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP’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. 3 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.
Board chair
Steve French
Chairman/Secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $20k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP’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
SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 70% · 2021 84% · 2022 38% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP is better cushioned than half of the 6,869 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP: 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 SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP?
- SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,930 to it, the largest being DOUG HOLLIDAY MINISTRIES INC ($167,297). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $246,930 in grants to SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP?
- DOUG HOLLIDAY MINISTRIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $167,297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SONLIFE CLASSIC NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2019–2025), 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