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Action for Life Inc

Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$35kCrime & Legal$19kEducation$17kCivil Rights$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kInternational$10kHealth$8kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $58,840, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,181 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,341 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$344k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY$22,170
PATH 2 FREEDOM$19,170
SIDEWALK ADVOCATES FOR LIFE$7,500
AVE MARIA$5,000
THE GIVEN INSTITUTE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL NAPLES DISTRICT COUNCIL: $5k → 10%SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY: $22k → 10%SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 3 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
3

Total granted

$69k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SO
    SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • LO
    LAW OF LIFE SUMMIT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $17k
  • AM
    AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • WO
    WINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • SV
    ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +28%
  • AC
    A Community Pregnancy Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
A Choice for Life Inc

Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…

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2
Life-Way Family and Pregnancy Suppo

The organization provides women in crisis pregnancies alternatives to abortion, regardless of their religion, race or position in life and to help them come to a decision they and their babies can live the rest of their lives.

Health
3
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
4
Life International

To partner with leaders globally to boldly proclaim the biblical truth of the father's heart for life, champion the gospel of jesus christ, and establish life-giving ministries.

Health
5
A Womans Haven Inc

To serve women and their unborn babies, who are facing a crisis pregnancy. We do this by encouraging alternatives to abortion through FREE education, counseling, community referrals, and material assistance. We offer these services…

Human Services
6
Liberty Womens Clinic

Liberty Women's Clinic ministers with the love of Christ by empowering people to make informed, life-affirming decisions about pregnancy, sexual health, and relationships.

Health
7
Lifesource Ministries Inc

Christ-centered organization dedicated to empowering women with the truth and hope they need to choose life. develop and distribution of informational and educational materials.

Health
8
Avenues Pregnancy Clinic

Avenues provides a network of care to those experiencing pregnancy related crisis and compassionately present Biblical truth resulting in changed lives to the glory of God.

Health
9
Amnion Women's Center

Amnion's mission is to share the gospel of jesus christ and to protect and advocate for the sanctity of all human life, born and unborn, through the provision of abortion alternative services that empower mothers to choose life.

Health
10
Life Choices Care Center

To provide support for pregnant women

Health
11
Aid for Women Inc

Aid for Women operates pregnancy help centers, pregnancy medical clinics and residential programs to assist women in difficult and unexpected pregnancy situations so that they might choose life.

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12
Life Choice Care Center Inc

To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sidewalk Advocates for Life; the most unlike its peers is A Community Pregnancy Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $35,170 · Human ServicesSUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY INCST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $5,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLESA Community Pregnancy Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesA Community Pregnancy Center IncLAW OF LIFE SUMMIT: $17,000 · OtherLAW OF LIFE SUMMITThe Given Institute Inc: $5,000 · OtherThe Given Institute …PATH2FREEDOM INC: $19,170 · Crime & LegalPATH2FREEDOM INCAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $17,000 · EducationAVE MARIA UNIVE…WINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC: $10,000 · InternationalWINGS OF …Sidewalk Advocates for Life: $7,500 · Health
Human Services$45,170Other$22,000Crime & Legal$19,170Education$17,000International$10,000Health$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNLIGHT OF COLLIER COUNTY INC: $35,170 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPATH2FREEDOM INC: $19,170 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF SHELTER INT'L INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSidewalk Advocates for Life: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY NAPLES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Community Pregnancy Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Collier Community Fou…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Collier Community Foundation IncFL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Action for Life Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Action for Life Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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