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BETTERALIFE INC

EIN 81-4450998 PURCELLVILLE, VA

Revenue 2024
$198,039
Expenses 2024
$230,694

Program services were 76.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K12
Classification
1000
Street
201 N MAPLE AVE UNIT E

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

Providing children and families with food, educational assistance, and life-skill services. Showing youth and individuals the educational and job-related opportunities they can pursue and inspire hope for a bright future ahead. Through our programs, we provide children with the resources they need to succeed, inspire hope, and empower them to pursue their dreams.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Providing children and families with food, educational assistance, and life-skill services.

  • Served 10,000 children and families in 2024 Fairfax county and Loudoun County. We provided over 60,000 pounds of food serving Loudoun County and Fairfax county weekly weekly. Provided weekly meals bags for children to have on the weekend to community centers and schools. Provided emergency support for clothes, food, housing and hygiene when contacted by the county and or multiple schools we assist locally. Opened a new food pantry in one Fairfax county elementary clothes, shoes and hygiene items for students who need it. Provided emergency assistance to homeless familiesvia calls from the families or the county asking for the after hours help.

    Expenses $146,930

  • We provided 800 new book bags with school supplies. We served 1,440 children in our 9 month education school program for homework help. We provided hot dinner for 1,440 children which averages to 40 children per week in our homework club. We provided 1000 families with a holiday meal and toys,

    Expenses $26,857

  • We provided 24 cooking classes in all between Fairfax county and Loudoun County. Providing lessons to 480 youth.

    Expenses $2,904

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.

  • ELIZABTH MARIE FORD

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    50

  • ELAINE STONE

    CHAIRWOMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • COLLEEN STUTZ

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDREA JOHNSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSH ORYE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE MULL

    CHAIRWOMEN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TED ARGLEBEN

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHRISTINA WHITE

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $198,039
    Expenses
    $230,694
    Contributions
    $188,838
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $187,975
    Expenses
    $147,876
    Contributions
    $194,228
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $99,487
    Expenses
    $89,554
    Contributions
    $98,470
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $71,339
    Expenses
    $46,929
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,626

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Elizabeth Ford
Mailing address
816 Pencoast DrivePurcellville VA 20132
Website
www.betteralife.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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