After Life Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873981588
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2138789808
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $638,144
- Expenses
- $584,237
- Assets
- $122,286
- Liabilities
- $613
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEEFE L DASHIELL (PRESIDENT,CO-EXECUTIVE)
- DOMINQUE TANKS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KEEAIRRA DASHIELL (SECRETARY,CO-EXECUTIVE): $71,696 total reported compensation
- KEEFE L DASHIELL (PRESIDENT,CO-EXECUTIVE): $68,160 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The after life initiative, aims to promote restorative justice, rehabilitation, community healing, and the successful reintegration of individuals relased from incarceration.
What it reported doing in 2025
Navigating life. Our navigating life program is dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated individuals as they reintegrate into society. We aim to empower them to shift from the survival mindset that is often built to survive incarceration to a growth mindset that will enable them to be successful post-incarceration. Our services include bi-monthly peer support and self-help healing circles addressing essential topics such as emotional intelligence, anger management, mental health management, understanding societal and cultural changes, effective communication, resistance to negative influences, relapse prevention, and meeting probation or parole requirements, these circles provide a space for participants to share their experiences and learn from each other. We organize monthly wellness outings, such as hikes, runs, yoga, and meditation, promoting physical and mental well-being while encouraging positive social interactions. We provide emergency funds for essentials like clothing, hygiene products, and healthy food. Many people returning from prison to la county have no resources or support system which can trigger mental health disturbances or crime to get by. We will use this line item to prevent this by helping them meet their needs legally. Recipients will either be provided with gift cards, be taken to purchase items by an after life staff member, or asked to submit receipts to prevents funds being used on any unallowable costs. We also provide referrals to other reentry resources including housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.6%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.9%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 86.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 56.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $584K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.