California · Nonprofit
The Happier Life Project Inc
The Happier Life Project Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,189 to it, the largest being TSAO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $63k
What The Happier Life Project Inc does
Mission
To provide community support for people and families impacted by substance use disorders and mental health challenges through education, advocacy, and peer-based recovery support services with the intent to normalize recovery.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Peer Support:The Happier Life Project provided comprehensive peer-led recovery support across Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. In 2024, peers delivered 1,083 hours of individualized support to 261 unduplicated individuals, including recovery coaching, crisis stabilization, telephonic support, and resource navigation.THLP facilitated 612 recovery groups including All-Recovery Meetings, CRAFT groups, DBSA sessions, grief circles, trauma-processing groups, anger management, mens and womens circles, and Wellbriety. These services reached 1,630 unique individuals and generated more than 3,260 touchpoints. Services strengthened emotional stability, recovery capital, connection, and long-term housing and wellness outcomesPeer services were delivered by certified Peer Support Specialists using trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and recovery-oriented practices. Engagement ORS outcome data: 69 individuals completed at least one assessment 38 completed two or more assessments 25 individuals (66%) showed improvement Median improvement among those who improved was 34%
$985,736 spent65% of program spendingEducation, Advocacy & Outreach:THLP conducted bilingual (English/Spanish) and culturally responsive outreach, reentry navigation, community education, and behavioral-health advocacy.In 2024, THLP conducted 116 outreach and reentry events, reaching 11,650 attendees (6,314 unique). Outreach occurred at probation PACT meetings, recovery summits, homelessness events, health fairs, schools, tribal events, and reentry centers.Educational programming included Narcan/overdose response, suicide prevention, harm reduction, emotional regulation, youth empowerment workshops, and anger management. More than 700 individuals participated in THLPs educational programs.Advocacy included participation in county and regional behavioral health coalitions, reentry collaboratives, and recovery-focused planning efforts.This category includes three sub-components:1. Education bilingual training in Narcan, suicide prevention, harm reduction, emotional regulation, youth wellness.2. Outreach probation collaboration, reentry engagement, homelessness outreach, school-based engagement, tribal community outreach.3. Advocacy participation in county recovery planning, SUD committees, reentry coalitions,…
$319,154 spent21% of program spendingYouth Wellness & Family Services:THLP delivered trauma-informed and culturally grounded youth and family supports, including school-based healing circles, youth empowerment events, youth recovery meetings, leadership development, and college & career workshops.Family programming included 95+ CRAFT-based groups, bilingual loved-ones sessions, parenting resiliency workshops, and stabilization support for families impacted by substance use, mental health, and justice involvement. Over 300 families engaged in youth and family programming, improving communication, reducing crisis, and strengthening household stability.Youth programming included identity-building, healing circles, leadership development, cultural education, and early intervention strategies. Family services included bilingual CRAFT groups, loved-ones circles, and parenting support focused on communication, stability, and emotional resilience.
$188,563 spent12% of program spendingCultural Wellness & Tribal Healing:THLP partnered with tribal nations on cultural healing initiatives including the Inter-Tribal Wellness & Recovery Campout (supported through a $23,000 sponsorship to the La Jolla Band of Luiseo Indians), Indigenous youth gatherings, ceremonies, and cultural wellness activities.
$23,000 spent2% of program spendingVolunteers:THLP benefited from more than 2,000 volunteer hours supporting recovery groups, youth programs, cultural events, outreach, and community healing. These hours are valued at over $70,000 and significantly expanded THLPs capacity to serve vulnerable communities.Volunteers serve in group support roles, cultural wellness assistance, outreach events, youth programs, and operational support. THLP maintains structured orientation, supervision, and support for volunteers to ensure safe and effective service delivery.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,516,453.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $66k to $545k (+721%).
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: 2022 81% · 2023 99% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of The Happier Life Project Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Leah Seykoski
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $40k → $20k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Happier Life Project 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
The Happier Life Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
50% 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 Happier Life Project Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
100% of The Happier Life Project Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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 Happier Life Project Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Happier Life Project 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Happier Life Project 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 The Happier Life Project Inc?
- The Happier Life Project Inc (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,189 to it, the largest being TSAO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Happier Life Project Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $80,189 in grants to The Happier Life Project Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Happier Life Project Inc?
- TSAO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Happier Life Project Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2024), 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