South Carolina · Nonprofit
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,573,679 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($645,248). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $925k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What The Life House Women's Shelter Inc does
Mission
Safe Shelter - The LHWS provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all three shelter locations. Keeping these shelters up to date with their proprety maintenance and basic utilities. When shelters are at full capacity, the LHWS uses hotel vouchers to keep unhoused women and their children out of the weather elements. In 2025, 214 women and 38 Children were sheltered. 35 women were moved into rental properties. Case Management provides a continuum of care is in a 30-60-90 day plan that includes: meals, acquiring identification and social security cards, accessing physical & mental health care, obtaining GED/education, completing resumes and job applications, securing employment, saving money, and research and assistance in acquiring housing. The LHWS helps to remove barriers including transportation, car care, day care and housing fees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Safe Shelter - The Life House provides unhoused single women and unhoused women with children safe shelter by providing onsite security at all 3 shelter locations keeping shelters up to date with property maintenance and providing basic utilities. In 2025 214 women and 38 children were sheltered and 35 women moved into rental properties. There were 21,600 nightly stays.Meals - The LH works to ensure that women and children have three meals per day. This is done through partnerships with two soup kitchens in town, a food pantry agency, and community partnerships. When there are gaps of coverage for meals, the LH has a budget to cover the needs.Case Management Client Care - When providing shelther and case management, the LH is starting homeless women on the continuum of care. Upon intake woemnt begin a 30-60-90 day plan that includes but is not limited to: acquiring ID and social security card, mental and physical health care, assistance with obtaining their GED or additional education, preparing resumes and job applications, security employment, saving money, and researching and applying for housing. We prevent barriers including transportation, emergency needs, car repairs, day…
$874,434 spent$21,628 earned by the program95% of program spendingAffordable Housing in Hartsville, South Carolina
$42,503 spent$43,273 earned by the program5% of program spendingTransitional Housing - As the continuum of care, 3 women are housed in transitional housing which equips them on their way to self-sufficiency.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $916,937.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $3.3M (+94%).
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: 2021 16% · 2022 6% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of The Life House Women's Shelter Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% 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.
Chief executive
Courtney Denton
Executive Director
Board chair
Kristen Rhyne
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $302k → $403k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 Life House Women's Shelter 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 Life House Women's Shelter Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 Life House Women's Shelter Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 98% · 2022 35% · 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.
Where its funders are
73% of The Life House Women's Shelter Inc'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 $433k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from South Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
The Life House Women's Shelter Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Life House Women's Shelter 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Life House Women's Shelter 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 Life House Women's Shelter Inc?
- The Life House Women's Shelter Inc (South Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,573,679 to it, the largest being SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION ($645,248). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Life House Women's Shelter Inc have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,573,679 in grants to The Life House Women's Shelter Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Life House Women's Shelter Inc?
- SOUTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $645,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Life House Women's Shelter Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 2021–2025), 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