Virginia · Nonprofit
WE SAVE LIVES
WE SAVE LIVES (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,238 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $54k
What We Save Lives does
Mission
To support and promote solution driven policies and programs that save lives by changing dangerous driving choices through viral awareness, education, advocacy, and partnerships
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We promote safe driving messages such as friends don't let friends drive drunk, distracted or drugged, by promoting our courage to intervene promise at schools across the country, public events, community organizations, newsletter and/or email campaigns, social media, website, etc.
$66,071 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $66,071.
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 $39k to $63k (+61%).
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 SAVE LIVES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $137 → $60k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SAVE LIVES’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 SAVE LIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
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 WE SAVE LIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 73% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
WE SAVE LIVES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
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
WE SAVE LIVES has grown faster than half of the 695 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 695 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WE SAVE LIVES
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
93%
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 SAVE LIVES: 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 SAVE LIVES?
- WE SAVE LIVES (Virginia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $235,238 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($225,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WE SAVE LIVES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $235,238 in grants to WE SAVE LIVES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WE SAVE LIVES?
- NATIONAL ROAD SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WE SAVE LIVES 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 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