California · Nonprofit
WE LIFT LA
WE LIFT LA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,790 to it, the largest being Lewis A Kingsley Foundation ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $22k
What We Lift La does
Mission
Objective is to empower at-risk youth to become more successful in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Life shills develpment: 10-15 young adultsWe Lift La helps youth aged out of foster care to acquire and hone necessary life skills that will increase their chances to successfully move toward young adulthood and self-sufficiency. The life skills curriculum consists of four modules, conducted in six sessions each module is 1 to 1 1/2 hours per session.
Housing program- 5 to 7 young adultsWe Lift La provides its own home as a safe haven for youth to maintain stable housingg and developing the necessary skills to move toward young adulthood.
$7,945 spent100% of program spendingIncome/support/job rediness training: 10-15 young adultsWe Lift La realizes that young people exiting foster care are often challenged when it comes to securing income that helps them meet their basic needs for housing,fppd,clothing, and medical care. We help them explore and access opportinities to secure and maintain income.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,945.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $32k to $8k (−75%).
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.
100% of WE LIFT LA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Scott Heiss
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WE LIFT LA’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
WE LIFT LA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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
73% of WE LIFT LA's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WE LIFT LA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WE LIFT LA
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.
Public support
100%
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 WE LIFT LA: 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 WE LIFT LA?
- WE LIFT LA (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,790 to it, the largest being Lewis A Kingsley Foundation ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WE LIFT LA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $72,790 in grants to WE LIFT LA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE LIFT LA?
- Lewis A Kingsley Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE LIFT LA 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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