LIFE RAFT GROUP INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

G70

Classification

1200

Street

US HIGHWAY 46 WEST SUITE 202

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

• RESEARCH: WE FUND AND MANAGE UNIQUELY COORDINATED RESEARCH INITIATIVES THAT ALWAYS KEEP THE NEEDS OF GIST PATIENTS FOREMOST. THE LIFE RAFT GROUP (LRG) CONTINUES TO LEAD A COLLABORATIVE TEAM OF WORLD-RENOWNED SCIENTISTS AND CLINICIANS IN GIST. LRG HAS THE LARGEST GIST PATIENT REGISTRY IN THE WORLD. OUR RESEARCH PARADIGM IS PATIENT-POWERED SCIENCE FOR LIFE. A COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH THAT COMPLIMENTS TRADITIONAL RESEARCH WITH REAL WORLD EVIDENCE SUPPORTED BY DATA.

  Expenses $1,141,896 · Grants $25,000

• INFORMATION, EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT: THE LRG PROVIDES SUPPORT, INTERVENTION, EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY TO GIST PATIENTS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND CAREGIVERS. LOCAL SUPPORT IS AVAILABLE TO THE GIST COMMUNITY THROUGH A NETWORK OF LRG MENTORS AND VOLUNTEERS. OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED WORLDWIDE. OUR GIST DAYS OF LEARNING ANDOUR BIENNIAL LIFE FEST EVENT GATHER EXPERTS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE TO BRING THE MOST UP TO DATE INFORMATION ON GIST RESEARCH, EMERGING THERAPIES AND UPDATES ON THE WORLD OF GIST. OUR OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS ALSO INCLUDE PATIENT SUPPORT GROUPS, FOCUS GROUPS, MONTHLY WEBCASTS, OUR WEBSITE, ACCESS TO OUR CLINICAL TRIALS DATABASE AND OUR WORLDWIDE GIST SPECIALIST DATABASE. EXPERT PATIENT TRAINING IS OFFERED TO ALL MEMBERS.

  Expenses $488,643

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $2,179,789

  Expenses

  $1,770,153

  Contributions

  $2,089,809

  Grants paid

  $25,000

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,861,966

  Expenses

  $1,712,287

  Contributions

  $1,569,132

  Grants paid

  $20,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,396,538

  Expenses

  $1,918,096

  Contributions

  $1,313,670

  Grants paid

  $25,000

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

  $1,973,515

  Expenses

  $1,984,660

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,390,555

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,030,922

  Expenses

  $1,996,675

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,323,199

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,544,312

  Expenses

  $1,964,935

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,281,991

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,201,324

  Expenses

  $1,955,610

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,671,932

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,094,919

  Expenses

  $1,901,977

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,427,396

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $954,741

  Expenses

  $2,367,358

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,244,565

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,188,288

  Expenses

  $2,378,766

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,669,149

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,837,304

  Expenses

  $2,277,171

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,881,275

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,145,446

  Expenses

  $2,411,426

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,264,769

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,380,145

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,578,709

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• SARCOMA ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH THROUGH COLLABORATION (SARC)

  $25,000

  2024 · RESEARCH GRANT

• UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2022 · RESEARCH GRANT

• SARCOMA ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH THROUGH COLLABORATION (SARC)

  $20,000

  2023 · RESEARCH GRANT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• JEWISH COMMUNITY FND OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA

  $25,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $17,500

  2023 · HEALTH

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $12,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $11,000

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $10,975

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $10,410

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND

  $9,758

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $7,667

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $7,200

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $6,200

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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

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