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YOUTH PASSAGEWAYS

EIN 47-4750095 KANSAS CITY, MO

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Revenue 2024
$3,127,161
Expenses 2024
$3,244,024

Program services were 82.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P30
Classification
1200
Street
2 NW 79TH ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Restoring Lifeways was to build a network of material interpersonal and spiritual support around leaders and communities practicing both traditional and emergent forms of cultural healing and regeneration.

  • The primary activity of Restoring Lifeways is fiscal sponsorship Restoring Lifeways RL serves as an interface with governmental and philanthropic entities for an individual or projects work accepting and administering funds in collaboration with them. Fiscal sponsorship at RL gives individuals and groups a 501c3 non-profit home allowing them to focus on their work while RL helps to manage financial HR and legal elements. This helps give projects the room they need to make their impact on the world. We see ourselves as partners with the organizations we support and our interactions with our projects go far beyond the transactional. We recognize and honor the sovereignty of our fiscal sponsors many of whom come from and are serving communities that have been subjected to historical and ongoing systems of subjugation disempowerment and oppression. We design our services to remove barriers build trust and partnership uplift traditional Indigenous knowledge and practices and contribute to healing justice and liberation. RLs fiscally sponsored projects have access to an array of services provided at a lower or more flexible cost than would be possible for these projects on their own. All fiscally sponsored projects at RL have a mission-aligned focus on supporting youth on their journey into healthy adulthood. We also partnered with a donor advised fund to distribute grants to a cohort of charitable exempt organizations.

    Expenses $2,392,601 · Grants $1,414,124 · Revenue $281,811

  • Restoring Lifeways will also sponsor conferences retreats and gatherings approximately 12 per year initially throughout the United States on topics related to cultural regeneration its efficacy and importance as part of comprehensive youth and community development efforts. These gatherings varying in size depending on specific outcomes and organizational capacity will both seek to provide training and educational experiences for participants as well as provide an opportunity to cultivate broader public awareness through engagement with the general public in the locale in which they are held. These are and will be funded through individual donations foundation grants and gathering fees. These activities are and will be funded through individual donations fees for service and foundation grants. They are accomplished by W2 staff and a roster of 1099 contractors.

    Expenses $167,060

  • Through education and partnership we are weaving a more resourced and interconnected network of relations between our fiscal sponsees grantees and collaborators. We serve as a hub for resources information and wisdom-flow between different parts of our network. This includes: Network gatherings workshops and online education and training opportunities Media that supports and spreads the word about culturally rooted ceremonial practices from our partners promoting cross cultural protocols dismantling oppressive systems and paradigms and re-indigenizing cultural practices and ceremonies Connecting practitioners with each other and to our web of culture builders through our Education and Consulting Directory Mutual aid and resource redistribution including our Resilience and Reparations Funds Relational tending and web-weaving across our network to support a more interconnected network of relations

    Expenses $115,500

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dane Zahorsky

    Co-Director

    Total calculated
    $111,977
    From this org
    $111,977
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ashanti Branch

    Director - Ever Forward Club

    Total calculated
    $124,999
    From this org
    $124,999
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,127,161
    Expenses
    $3,244,024
    Contributions
    $2,845,350
    Grants paid
    $1,414,124
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,156,523
    Expenses
    $5,875,030
    Contributions
    $6,002,713
    Grants paid
    $4,262,342
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,519,463
    Expenses
    $1,037,619
    Contributions
    $1,309,961
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $754,335
    Expenses
    $605,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $415,282

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $445,692
    Expenses
    $436,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $266,609

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $109,846
    Expenses
    $111,503
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,424

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $91,580
    Expenses
    $106,370
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,081

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $88,965
    Expenses
    $103,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,871

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $111,894
    Expenses
    $109,617
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,947

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $99,578
    Expenses
    $86,276
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,670

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.