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LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC

EIN 35-1902841 GRIDLEY, IL

Revenue 2024
$51,717,314
Expenses 2024
$37,799,676

Program services were 93.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q330
Classification
1000
Street
101 N WESTERN AVE

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

LIFESONGS MISSION IS TO BRING JOY AND PURPOSE TO ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN. WE DO THIS BY MOBILIZING THE CHURCH TO CARE FOR THE ORPHAN, WHERE EACH MEMBER CAN PROVIDE A UNIQUE AND SPECIAL SERVICE: SOME TO ADOPT, SOME TO CARE, SOME TO GIVE.

  • ORPHAN AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN CARE PROGRAM - PROVIDE SUPPORT TO ORPHAN AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, INCLUDING HUMANITARIAN AID; ESTABLISHING SCHOOLS AND LIVING QUARTERS; ASSISTING AND TRAINING FAMILIES; BIBLICAL TRAINING IN SCHOOLS, HOMES AND ORPHANAGES; SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE MINISTRIES ARE FOCUSED ON AT-RISK CHILDREN; SUPPORTING MENTORS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF AT-RISK CHILRDEN; SHORT-TERM MISSION TRIPS TO VARIOUS LOCATIONS; APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS REACHED - RUSSIA REGION - 3,384; EUROPE REGION - 820; SUB-SAHARA AFRICA REGION - 5,703; SOUTH ASIA REGION - 109; SOUTH AMERICA REGION - 75; CENTRAL AMERICA REGION - 1,759; EAST ASIA REGION - 241; NORTH AMERICA REGION - 25

    Expenses $20,426,771 · Grants $3,415,719

  • ADOPTION AND POST-ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - PROVIDE GRANTS AND LOANS TO ASSIST IN THE ADOPTION OF ORPHANS BY CHRISTIAN FAMILIES; PROVIDE POST-ADOPTION ASSISTANCE INCLUDING LITERATURE, COUNSELING AND TRAINING; SUPPORT OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE SUCH ASSISTANCE; FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IS PROVIDED TO OFFSET ONLY DOCUMENTED ADOPTION COSTS; COVENANT LOANS TO ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ARE ALSO PART OF THIS PROGRAM; LIFESONG HELPED FACILITATE ADOPTION AND POST-ADOPTION SUPPORT TO OVER 3,500 INDIVIDUALS/FAMILIES DURING THE YEAR

    Expenses $10,818,273 · Grants $8,130,399

  • SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES PROGRAM - PROVIDE JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN AS THEY TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD AS WELL AS ORPHAN CARE-GIVERS; JOB SKILL TRAINING FOR ORPHANED CHILDREN IN THE LIFESONG PROGRAMS; LIFESONG CURRENTLY HAS 10 BUSINESS PROGRAMS LOCATED IN HAITI, INDIA, UGANDA, UKRAINE AND ZAMBIA; BUSINESSES INCLUDE FARMS, FOOD AND LODGING ESTABLISHMENTS AND CONSTRUCTION BUSINESSES

    Expenses $4,052,155 · Revenue $3,105,335

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.

  • N ANDREW LEHMAN

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $258,841
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $246,623
    Other
    $12,218
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $217,605 related
    Bonus
    not reported + $29,018 related
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $10,190 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $2,028 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $258,841 related

  • KORY KAEB

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $251,823
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $217,766
    Other
    $34,057
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $189,854 related
    Bonus
    not reported + $27,912 related
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported + $9,801 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $24,256 related
    Filer's total
    not reported + $251,823 related

  • KYLE HANGARTNER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $144,485
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $116,814
    Other
    $27,671
    Hours/week
    30 + 10 related

  • ROBERT HOERR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIMOTHY WALLEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROBERT RITZMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GARY RINGGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH SHAW

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RODNEY BRENNEMAN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARLA RINGGER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATT HUGHES

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

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
    $51,717,314
    Expenses
    $37,799,676
    Contributions
    $46,835,733
    Grants paid
    $11,546,118
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $42,820,792
    Expenses
    $34,369,966
    Contributions
    $38,787,446
    Grants paid
    $10,862,185
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $39,806,626
    Expenses
    $32,143,911
    Contributions
    $35,039,526
    Grants paid
    $10,325,940

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
    $40,755,637
    Expenses
    $27,054,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,071,126

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $28,888,250
    Expenses
    $19,635,198
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,326,661

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,872,911
    Expenses
    $19,555,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,966,662

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $22,043,589
    Expenses
    $18,884,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,345,243

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $21,625,677
    Expenses
    $18,493,823
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,060,820

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $19,571,234
    Expenses
    $16,275,470
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,901,126

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,518,343
    Expenses
    $14,525,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,544,022

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,993,491
    Expenses
    $12,717,895
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,505,532

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,741,530
    Expenses
    $10,679,771
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,030,409

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $10,182,793
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,992,159

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

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Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • MANNA FOUNDATION

    501C3 · SUPPORTING ORG OF NAT CHRIST CHAR FOUNDATION · IL

  • LIFESONG INC

    501C3 · PROMOTE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST THROUGH CARING FOR ORPHANS · IN · controlled entity

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • MY LIFE MY GIFT LLC

    PROMOTE THE PURPOSE OF LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS · IL · income $33 · assets $798,196

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.