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TEEN LIFELINE INC

TEEN LIFELINE INC (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,423 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($169,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$478k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$708k
Net assets
$171k
9/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Teen Lifeline Inc does

Mission

Teen lifeline exists to assist teenagers in need. Teen lifeline focuses primarily on support for at-risk teenagers. This includes mentoring meetings, emotional support groups, and tangible supplies

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support for at-risk teenagers which included mentoring meetings, emotional support groups, tangible supplies and resources for teenage parents

    $402,963 spent$935 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $402,963.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($183k) Expenses 100 ($238k) Net assets 100 ($136k)2018 Revenue 220 ($403k) Expenses 157 ($373k) Net assets 122 ($166k)2019 Revenue 171 ($313k) Expenses 135 ($321k) Net assets 116 ($157k)2020 Revenue 201 ($369k) Expenses 134 ($320k) Net assets 152 ($206k)2021 Revenue 230 ($422k) Expenses 174 ($414k) Net assets 157 ($214k)2022 Revenue 282 ($517k) Expenses 196 ($467k) Net assets 194 ($264k)2023 Revenue 257 ($470k) Expenses 215 ($511k) Net assets 164 ($223k)2024 Revenue 261 ($478k) Expenses 223 ($531k) Net assets 125 ($171k)
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Revenue (261)Expenses (223)Net assets (125)Peer revenue range

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 $214k to $264k (+23%).

$136k
$166k
$157k
$206k
$214k
$264k
$223k
$176k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of TEEN LIFELINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$55k
’17
$30k
’18
−$8k
’19
$49k
’20
$8k
’21
$50k
’22
−$41k
’23
−$52k
’24
4.0
months of
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.

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Listed109111112151411
Joined·+0+6+0+5+3+4+1
No longer listed·1404054
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $36k → $138k.

8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 TEEN LIFELINE 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

TEEN LIFELINE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

49% 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 TEEN LIFELINE INC.

24%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 42% · 2019 36% · 2020 42% · 2021 52% · 2022 45% · 2023 52% — 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

71% of TEEN LIFELINE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

TEEN LIFELINE INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 4 states in all.

RI
KY
DE
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TEEN LIFELINE INC has grown faster than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like TEEN LIFELINE INC

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In Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 14%Fundraising 10%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TEEN LIFELINE INC?
TEEN LIFELINE INC (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $708,423 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($169,750). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TEEN LIFELINE INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $708,423 in grants to TEEN LIFELINE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TEEN LIFELINE INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $169,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TEEN LIFELINE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 16 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