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Form 990 for tax year 2022

Filed by LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$39,806,626
Total expenses
$32,143,911
Contributions and grants received
$35,039,526
Grants paid
$10,325,940
Program service revenue
$2,252,553
Investment income
$2,512,638
Other revenue
$1,909
Total assets, end of year
$62,750,251
Total liabilities, end of year
$584,066
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$62,166,185
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$30,324,170
Management and general expenses
$513,071
Fundraising expenses
$1,306,670
Program service expenses (Part III)
$30,324,170

Program services were 94.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $745,754

  • 1d · Related organizations

    $143,652

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $34,150,120

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $199,451

  • 2a · Program service revenue: AGBUSINESS REVENUE

    total $2,252,553 · related or exempt $2,252,553

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,246,156 · excluded $1,246,156

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $2,000,000 · other assets $2,039,450

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $2,248,513 · other assets $524,455

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities -$248,513 · other assets $1,514,995

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $1,266,482 · excluded $1,266,482

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $12,400

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $745,754

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $68,812

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$56,412 · excluded -$56,412

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISC

    total $58,321 · related or exempt $58,321

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $58,321

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $3,500,000 · program services $3,500,000

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $6,825,940 · program services $6,825,940

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $3,416,473 · program services $3,416,473

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $23,831 · program services $23,831

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $81,447 · program services $81,447

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $45,823 · program services $42,153 · management and general $3,670

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $65,750 · program services $17,697 · management and general $46,358 · fundraising $1,695

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $437,511 · program services $247,235 · management and general $99,286 · fundraising $90,990

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $494,781 · program services $12,500 · management and general $17,564 · fundraising $464,717

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $674,935 · program services $239,825 · management and general $56,839 · fundraising $378,271

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $91,652 · program services $25,606 · management and general $45,462 · fundraising $20,584

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $1,153,819 · program services $998,354 · management and general $106,951 · fundraising $48,514

  • 17 · Travel

    total $1,235,966 · program services $942,306 · management and general $22,978 · fundraising $270,682

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $104,007 · program services $98,929 · management and general $3,940 · fundraising $1,138

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $1,952,716 · program services $1,895,848 · management and general $37,122 · fundraising $19,746

  • 24a · Other expenses: MINISTRY SUPPLIESSERVICES

    total $12,019,117 · program services $11,944,141 · management and general $72,876 · fundraising $2,100

  • 24b · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $20,143 · program services $11,885 · management and general $25 · fundraising $8,233

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $851,590 · end of year $2,972,780

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $4,959,859 · end of year $1,977,733

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $443,526 · end of year $1,940,377

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $33,208,255

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $10,442,946

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $20,407,989 · end of year $22,765,309

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $23,497,203 · end of year $28,020,940

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $4,000,000 · end of year $4,000,000

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    beginning of year $306,492 · end of year $360,614

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $604,467 · end of year $712,498

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $223,641 · end of year $581,426

  • 24 · Unsecured notes and loans payable

    beginning of year $305,000 · end of year $2,640

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $29,118,301 · end of year $32,881,200

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $25,424,184 · end of year $29,284,985

Mission and programs · 2022

Mission

LIFESONGS MISSION IS TO BRING JOY AND PURPOSE TO ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN. WE DO THIS BY MOBILIZING THE CHURCH TO CARE FOR THE ORPHAN, WHERE EACH MEMBER CAN PROVIDE A UNIQUE AND SPECIAL SERVICE: SOME TO ADOPT, SOME TO CARE, SOME TO GIVE.

  • ORPHAN AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN CARE PROGRAM - PROVIDE SUPPORT TO ORPHAN AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, INCLUDING; HUMANITARIAN AID; ESTABLISHING SCHOOLS AND LIVING QUARTERS; ASSISTING AND TRAINING FAMILIES; BIBLICAL TRAINING IN SCHOOLS, HOMES AND ORPHANAGES; SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE MINISTRIES ARE FOCUSED ON AT-RISK CHILDREN; SUPPORTING MENTORS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF AT-RISK CHILRDEN; SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS OPERATIONS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS; SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIPS TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS; APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS REACHED - RUSSIA REGION - 3,850; SUB-SAHARA AFRICA REGION - 4,630; SOUTH ASIA REGION - 100; SOUTH AMERICA REGION - 68; CENTRAL AMERICA REGION - 1,365; EAST ASIA REGION - 150; NORTH AMERICA REGION - 34

    Expenses $22,255,514 · Grants $3,404,211 · Revenue $2,252,553

  • ADOPTION AND POST-ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - PROVIDE GRANTS AND LOANS TO ASSIST IN THE ADOPTION OF ORPHANS BY CHRISTIAN FAMILIES; PROVIDE POST-ADOPTION ASSISTANCE INCLUDING LITERATURE, COUNSELING AND TRAINING; SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE SUCH ASSISTANCE; FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IS PROVIDED TO OFFSET ONLY DOCUMENTED ADOPTION COSTS; COVENANT LOANS TO ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ARE ALSO PART OF THIS PROGRAM; LIFESONG HELPED FACILITATE ADOPTION AND POST-ADOPTION SUPPORT TO OVER 2,000 INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES DURING THE YEAR

    Expenses $8,068,656 · Grants $6,921,729

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • N Andrew Lehman

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $234,604
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $224,209
    Other
    $10,395
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $197,120 related
    Bonus
    not reported + $27,089 related
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $9,391 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $1,004 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $234,604 related

  • Kory Kaeb

    VP - OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $213,403
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $189,175
    Other
    $24,228
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $164,519 related
    Bonus
    not reported + $24,656 related
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $8,548 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $15,680 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $213,403 related

  • Elizabeth Shaw

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Phillip Goad

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Hoerr

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joel Clousing

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Timothy Wallen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rodney Brenneman

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Ringger

    PRESIDENTCEO - NO SALARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

  • Marla Ringger

    SECRETARYTREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Compensation contingent on revenues (Part I, line 5)
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVES A BONUS PACKAGE BASED ON A VARIETY OF MINISTRY FACTORS INCLUDING OVERALL GROWTH, ADVOCATES SERVED, SERVICE VOLUME, MINISTRY OUTCOMES, ETC.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • TMG FOUNDATION

    501C3 · SUPPORTING ORG OF NAT CHRIST CHAR FOUNDATION · IL

    Directly controlled by NONE

  • LIFESONG INC

    501C3 · PROMOTE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH CARING FOR ORPHANS · IN · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by YES

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2022
Filed
2 February 2024
IRS schema version
2022v5.0
Source object
202440339349301519

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