Utah · Nonprofit
WHOLIVES INC
WHOLIVES INC (Utah) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $908,691 to it, the largest being Asea Advancing Life Foundation ($265,950). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $909k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Wholives Inc does
Mission
Wholives provides sustainable clean water and economic development programs through community ownership and self-reliance programs. We have a mission to end fgm and child slavery abuses. We implement our anti-bullying and anti-suicide program to our vulnerable youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wholives has continued to make a life-changing impact through its water and drilling initiatives, providing access to clean, safe water for millions of people in underserved communities around the world. To date, wholives has helped drill nearly 16,000 wells in 44 developing countries, bringing reliable water access to more than 15 million people. These efforts have improved health, reduced waterborne disease, strengthened local economies, supported agriculture and education, and restored dignity and opportunity to families living in extreme poverty. Through innovation and community partnerships, wholives remains committed to sustainable water solutions that transform lives and build stronger communities.
$786,488 spent65% of program spendingWholives has continued to expand its entrepreneur and mentor programs, helping individuals and families build sustainable pathways out of poverty through business training, mentorship, and small business development. In 2025 alone, wholives helped launch more than 60 new businesses by equipping participants with practical skills, financial guidance, and ongoing mentorship support. The program has maintained an outstanding 98% loan repayment rate, demonstrating the effectiveness of its relationship-based mentoring model. By empowering local entrepreneurs to create income, jobs, and long-term economic stability, wholives is strengthening communities and fostering self-reliance across the regions it serves.
$290,395 spent24% of program spendingWholives has made historic progress in the fight to eliminate female genital mutilation (fgm) in western kenya and northern tanzania through community-led education, advocacy, and cultural transformation initiatives. By working closely with local leaders, families, schools, and former practitioners, wholives helped establish the sweet 15 (temu kumi na tano) celebration as a positive alternative rite of passage for girls. These efforts have contributed to the near eradication of fgm in several communities, protecting tens of thousands of girls from cutting, child marriage, and lifelong trauma. Wholives continues to empower communities to uphold the dignity, health, education, and future of young women through sustainable cultural change.
$133,098 spent11% of program spendingAnti bullying and anti suicide engagement programs. We have delivered to over 100,000 people our unique and personal engagement program to curb bullying and suicide behaviors amongst our vulnerable youth.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,209,981.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+28%).
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: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WHOLIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $212k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 WHOLIVES 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
WHOLIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 WHOLIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 96% · 2020 74% · 2021 51% · 2022 38% · 2023 71% — 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
30% of WHOLIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
93% of WHOLIVES INC's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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
WHOLIVES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WHOLIVES 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHOLIVES INC?
- WHOLIVES INC (Utah) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $908,691 to it, the largest being Asea Advancing Life Foundation ($265,950). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHOLIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $908,691 in grants to WHOLIVES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHOLIVES INC?
- Asea Advancing Life Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $265,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHOLIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 24 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