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LIFE DIRECTIONS

EIN 36-3873676 DETROIT, MI

Largest nonprofits in Michigan

Revenue 2025
$787,163
Expenses 2025
$777,600

Program services were 62.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L80Z
Classification
1000
Street
8425 W MCNICHOLS RD

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).

Other organizations at this address

6 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO MOTIVATE AT RISK YOUNG ADULTS TO MATURE RESPONSIBLE, PRODUCTIVE ADULTS

  • PROVIDE CONSULTATION, EVALUATION, RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL UNITS OF LIFE DIRECTIONS REGARDING THEIR PURPOSE OF ASSISTING LOW INCOME STUDENTS AND TRAINING AT RISK YOUNG ADULTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    Expenses $483,311 · Revenue $22,346

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.

  • Rev John Phelps Cssr

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mary Ann Krempges

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Pascuala Herrera

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ellen Burkhardt Op

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Brown Marks

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Raymond McCaskey

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Tom Phelps

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Terrence Larkin

    NATIONAL TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dan Ranieri

    SECERTARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Rev Kevin Zubel Cssr

    DIRECTOR

    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $787,163
    Expenses
    $777,600
    Contributions
    $752,302
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $770,303
    Expenses
    $767,804
    Contributions
    $750,210
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $728,469
    Expenses
    $783,077
    Contributions
    $692,199
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $675,112
    Expenses
    $679,807
    Contributions
    $636,745
    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
    $781,801
    Expenses
    $674,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $489,070

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $536,175
    Expenses
    $592,566
    Assets (EOY)
    $377,780

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $611,040
    Expenses
    $674,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $226,019

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $677,319
    Expenses
    $635,684
    Assets (EOY)
    $381,146

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $589,941
    Expenses
    $459,151
    Assets (EOY)
    $336,563

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $422,912
    Expenses
    $367,655
    Assets (EOY)
    $208,092

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

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 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.