Arizona · Nonprofit
THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING
THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,393 to it, the largest being THE NORTH STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $68k
What The Center for Humane Living does
Mission
The Center for Humane Living (chl) empowers quality relationships, effective leadership, and life-long learning through its pay-it-forward model and transformational curriculum. This unique methodology honors the ancient martial arts while incorporating modern business theories to promote integrated well-being. Chl exists to inspire individuals to lead more peaceful and compassionate lives. Students are encouraged to be curious and empty their minds in order to continue learning from the universal truths of the martial arts. Chl provides breakthrough ideas on educating individuals of all ages, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds within the arizona community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Center for Humane Living (chl) is a pay-it-forward culture that empowers quality relationships, effective leadership, and life-long learning. Chl provides breakthrough ideas on educating students through a wellness model that evolves with the student's thirst for holistic fulfillment. Our center offers numerous programs with this innovative curriculum and is free-of-charge to individuals of all ages, races, ethnicities, and socioeconomic backgrounds within the arizona community.the semi-annual clothing drive gave over $22,000 worth of clothing to arizona low-income residents and their families during 2023. The semi-annual feed the homeless projects gave over $1,000 in food feeding homeless and low income population in arizona during 2023.in the wellness warriors program, counselors who are both medicalprofessionals and certified martial arts instructors help in-patient children cope with pain and anxiety. Wellness warriors is an innovative program designed to inspire, empower and enable children and their families to better manage health care challenges.
$70,455 spentof which $23,387 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,455.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $75k to $92k (+23%).
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.
89% of THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lisa A Dado Md
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $167.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING’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
THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% 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 THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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
THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING has grown faster than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
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 THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING: 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 THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING?
- THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING (Arizona) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,393 to it, the largest being THE NORTH STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $19,393 in grants to THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING?
- THE NORTH STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CENTER FOR HUMANE LIVING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 5 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