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THE BETTER LIFE FOUNDATION INC

EIN 75-3148553 MOBILE, AL

Revenue 2024
$1,802
Expenses 2024
$182,702

Program services were 91.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 160346

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

TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF FOOD, SHELTER, & MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AS WELL AS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF CHIDLREN & YOUNG ADULTS WIHT SPECIAL NEEDS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF FOOD, SHELTER, & MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AS WELL AS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

  • DONATIONS AND GRANTS TO ORGANIZED CHARITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION AND EXEMPT PURPOSE

  • DONATIONS AND GRANTS TO ORGANIZED CHARITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION AND EXEMPT PURPOSE

    Expenses $167,000 · Grants $167,000

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.

  • BRADLEY K ARNOLD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0

  • CHRISTOPHER L HENDERSON

    SECRETARY-TR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • MARK D SMITH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0

  • CRISPER STANDFORD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,802
    Expenses
    $182,702
    Contributions
    $1,795
    Grants paid
    $167,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $353,051
    Expenses
    $205,888
    Contributions
    $14,037
    Grants paid
    $155,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $337,833
    Expenses
    $196,016
    Contributions
    $8,995
    Grants paid
    $139,000

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
    $23,851
    Expenses
    $78,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $243,203

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    -$4,828
    Expenses
    $113,087
    Assets (EOY)
    $298,216

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $281,306
    Expenses
    $209,254
    Assets (EOY)
    $416,131

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $475,076
    Expenses
    $216,751
    Assets (EOY)
    $344,079

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $60,012
    Expenses
    $264,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,754

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $200,849
    Expenses
    $166,893
    Assets (EOY)
    $290,388

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $202,994
    Expenses
    $112,124
    Assets (EOY)
    $276,432

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $127,635
    Expenses
    $140,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,562

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $153,473
    Expenses
    $129,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $198,562

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $120,521
    Assets (EOY)
    $178,828

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.