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BREATH OF LIFE FOUNDATION

EIN 81-2127760 MENASHA, WI

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Revenue 2024
$86,695
Expenses 2024
$73,577

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
H12
Classification
1000
Street
W5726 FIRELANE 12

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

Primary exempt purpose

THE BREATH OF LIFE FOUNDATION IS COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS CENTERS IN GREEN BAY,MILWAUKEE AND MADISON TO FILTER FUNDS DIRECTLY TO FAMILIES WHO NEED IT. WE ARE WORKING TO PROMOTE A HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THOSE WHO ARE BATTLING EVERY DAY TO BREATHE. WE WANT TO HELP WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR MEDICATIONS, ADDITIONAL TREATMENTS, NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, TRAVEL, LODGING AND OTHER ANCILLARY COSTS THAT MAKE LIFE EVEN HARDER TO LIVE.

  • MEDICAL EXPENSES. OUR FOUNDATION PROVIDED PROGRAM SERVICES FOR PATIENTS MEDICAL EXPENSES THAT INCLUDED MEDICAL CO-PAYS NOT COVERED BY TRADITIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAMS, EXPENSES RELATED TO NUTRITIONAL SUPPLES AND A VARIETY OF NON-TRADITIONAL MEDICAL EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH MAINTAINING OVERALL HEALTH REALTED TO CYSTIC FIBROSIS.HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. OUR FOUNDATION PROVDIED PROGRAM SERVICES FOR PATIENTS TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LIFESTLYE IN AN EFFORT TO BATTLE THE DEGENERATIVE EFFECTS OF CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE. THESE PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDED SPORTS FEES, MEMBERSHIPS AND VARIOUS EQUIPMENT.MEDICAL BILLS SENT TO COLLECTIONS. OUR FOUNDATION PROVIDED PROGRAM SERVICES FOR PATIENTS WHO HAD EXPERIENCED UNPAID BILLS SENT TO COLLECTIONS.

    Expenses $69,375 · Grants $69,375

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Gerayln Hartman

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Sherry Eisch

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Stephanie Willems

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tyler Arkens

    DIR. OF BUSINESS DEVELOPME

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Don Noskowiak

    DIR. OF STRATEGIC PLANNING

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Suzanne Kowalczyk

    MEDICAL REVIEW

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $86,695
    Expenses
    $73,577
    Contributions
    $83,175
    Grants paid
    $69,375
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $68,830
    Expenses
    $53,874
    Contributions
    $69,536
    Grants paid
    $51,476
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $92,363
    Expenses
    $46,182
    Contributions
    $93,395
    Grants paid
    $41,017

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $68,401
    Expenses
    $30,990
    Assets (EOY)
    $146,062
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $42,852
    Expenses
    $27,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $108,651
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $56,962
    Expenses
    $33,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $92,982
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $53,681
    Expenses
    $35,025
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,141
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $45,270
    Expenses
    $18,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,485

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Tyler Arkens
Mailing address
W6320 Dogwood LaneMenasha WI 54952

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

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 13 October 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.