- Revenue 2025
- $41,007,550
- Expenses 2025
- $40,402,403
Program services were 95.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- P80
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 3300 SW 29TH ST STE 100
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 · 2025
Mission
To provide quality life styles for persons with a disability through the provision of service administration, individualized planning, and payroll services for in-home support employers.
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Life Patterns, Inc. works with approximately 1,300 individuals with a disability and their family members who have chosen the self-directed care service delivery model for Medicaid Home and Community Based Service Recipients. Life Patterns has developed a training notebook and provides one-on-one assistance to individuals with planning in implementing personalized support systems and assistance with the hiring process of personal support providers. Life Patterns also assist when employee performance is not adequate and remediation is needed, back-up support issues, questions about finding and navigating the developmental and physical disability system of Kansas. Life Patterns provides training on the person-centered planning process which is required by the State of Kansas. Tools to provide individuals with timely information on upcoming changes and employer ideas and resources needed to be an effective and successful employer include one-on-one presentations, newsletters, and a website. Life Patterns has implemented a New Participant Coordinator position that provides individualized support to families / employers new to Life Patterns and the Kansas Medicaid waiver.
Expenses $37,324,571 · Revenue $39,828,891
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The State of Kansas offers the option of a limited scope license for services for a person with a disability. Life Patterns, Inc. was among the first in Kansas to obtain a limited license and has developed a training notebook with the experience gained by going through the application and implementation process. When requested, Life Patterns provides assistance in determining if this is an option the recipient should pursue. Life Patterns also assists limited licenses with billing and payroll services, as well as information and assistance on final rule requirements and industry and employment related issues.
Expenses $1,047,210 · Revenue $1,091,729
As filed on the 2025 return.
Officers and directors · 2025
As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Jon GerdelJON GERDEL
PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $244,321
- From this org
- $244,321
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $219,615
- Bonus
- $24,706
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $244,321
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Shannon WagnerSHANNON WAGNER
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $244,321
- From this org
- $244,321
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $219,615
- Bonus
- $24,706
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0
- Filer's total
- $244,321
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Robyn PughROBYN PUGH
ACCOUNTS MANAGER
- Total calculated
- $107,027
- From this org
- $107,027
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Eva LoewenEVA LOEWEN
OFFICE MANAGE
- Total calculated
- $103,231
- From this org
- $103,231
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Doug GerdelDOUG GERDEL
BOARD PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $27,500
- From this org
- $27,500
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Kathy RamirezKATHY RAMIREZ
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Joyce AppersonJOYCE APPERSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Donna PashmanDONNA PASHMAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Kelli WatsonKELLI WATSON
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2025
- Revenue
- $41,007,550
- Expenses
- $40,402,403
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2024
- Revenue
- $35,609,093
- Expenses
- $34,973,084
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $31,381,965
- Expenses
- $30,563,143
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $27,446,579
- Expenses
- $26,860,794
- Contributions
- $0
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $21,307,130
- Expenses
- $20,749,143
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,993,814
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $19,836,002
- Expenses
- $19,468,117
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,098,172
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
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
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.