Virginia · Nonprofit
THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC
THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,913 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE ($177,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $129k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $208k
- Net assets
- $193k
What The Life Works Project Inc does
Mission
To empower our neighbors with practical supports to uplift and thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
River city bread basket- first of its kind client-choice grocery outlet that encourages distribution with dignity for our guests. Also have a mobile food distribution program to seniors and differently abled people in waynesboro, augusta county, and staunton twice a month. Through our food insecurity programs 2,762 unique households were served.
$56,579 spent69% of program spendingMicrogrant program- supporting alice (asset limited income constrained employed)individuals in the community. Making direct payments to utility companies, daycares, care repair shops, etc to support individuals and families who have been unable to meet their needs on their own. We provided microgrants to 53 individuals.
$16,902 spentof which $16,902 as grants20% of program spendingProvide whole family services - such as financial classes, mental health and family counseling, life skills such as voter registration, library cards, workforce development.
Annual jobfest - in an effort to connect community job seekers with employers in the staunton, augusta county and waynesboro area, the life works project hosts an annual job fair where potential employees also receive resume help, interview skills and access to other community agencies. An emphasis is placed on bringing second chance employers together to present opportunities for those who need it. This year there were 104 attendees hooptie hospital car care clinic - ran every tuesday in the month of september. This program centers around those who may receive snap or medicaid, own a vehicle, and need to keep it running. Particpants received hands on training/support with basic car care maintenance by trutech automotive in waynesboro. At the end of the sessions an emergency roadside kit was given to each household and a 150 gift certificate for a repair or replacement part for their vehicle. Capped at 10 participants.
$9,092 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $82,573.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $162k to $304k (+88%).
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.
98% of THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Larry Stopper
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $68k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 WORKS 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 LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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
99% of THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $205k 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 LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LIFE WORKS 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC?
- THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $207,913 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE ($177,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $207,913 in grants to THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE is the largest funder on record, with $177,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LIFE WORKS PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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