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The LifeGuard Group Inc

The LifeGuard Group Inc (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,498 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($591,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$453k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$1.2M
7/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What The LifeGuard Group Inc does

Mission

The LifeGuard Group is a group of experts committed to an aggressive, comprehensive approach to taking the fight to human trafficking.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Missing person search, rescue, and restoration. MT human trafficing hotline services. Operating a home for survivors of human trafficing.

    $337,185 spent$731,128 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $337,185.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($303k) Expenses 100 ($162k) Net assets 100 ($171k)2021 Revenue 489 ($1.5M) Expenses 364 ($590k) Net assets 550 ($937k)2022 Revenue 298 ($902k) Expenses 227 ($368k) Net assets 570 ($972k)2023 Revenue 206 ($624k) Expenses 383 ($620k) Net assets 701 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 149 ($453k) Expenses 302 ($489k) Net assets 679 ($1.2M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (149)Expenses (302)Net assets (679)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 2022 to 2023, from $975k to $1.8M (+80%).

$171k
$946k
$975k
$1.8M
$1.7M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 1% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of The LifeGuard Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$141k
’20
$894k
’21
$535k
’22
$5k
’23
−$37k
’24
5.5
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.

Board chair

Brandon Smith

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed149101012
Joined·+2+3+1+3
No longer listed·7211
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $5k → $46k.

6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LifeGuard Group 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 LifeGuard Group Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

59%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 71% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — 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

50% of The LifeGuard Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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

91% of The LifeGuard Group Inc's grant income comes from Montana funders.

ID
MT

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k 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

The LifeGuard Group Inc has grown faster than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like The LifeGuard Group 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 Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 32%Fundraising 3%

Governance

12
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MT

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds The LifeGuard Group Inc?
The LifeGuard Group Inc (Montana) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,004,498 to it, the largest being GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST ($591,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The LifeGuard Group Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,004,498 in grants to The LifeGuard Group Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The LifeGuard Group Inc?
GIANFORTE FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $591,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The LifeGuard Group Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 17 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