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Athlife Foundation Inc

Provide grants, educational resources, training, professional development, and other resources in secondary education to schools, school districts, educators and other staff, to support academic, career, leadership, mental health, wellness and holistic social development for student athletes.

$189k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$916kYouth Development$58kEmployment$34kRecreation & Sports$29kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$8kArts & Culture$8k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
$10,746
Median grant
6
States reached
$457k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN STREET ACADEMY$23,235
BETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$22,500
ALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT$17,500
DANBURY HIGH SCHOOL$16,666
POCONO MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,503
WHITEHALL-COPLAY SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,495
MERIDEN PULIC SCHOOLS$13,372
SOUTHEATERN GREENE SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,746
FULTON COUNTY SCHOOLS$10,000
PHILLIPSBURG SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,555
ALIQUIPPA SCHOOL DISTRICT$7,667
FRIENDS OF JOHN JAY JAGUARS ATHLETI$7,586
FREDERICK DOUGLASS HS ATHLETICS$6,666
NOTH ATLANTA HS BOOSTER CLUB$6,660
Individual grant recipient$6,500
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 (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT YMCA: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$856k · 19 repeat orgs$206k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
20

Total granted

$856k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+28%

Still filing today

16%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MP
    MERIDEN PULIC SCHOOLS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $158k
  • RP
    RICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $128k
  • GS
    GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SW
    SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +235%
  • LI
    LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +26%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
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
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
2
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
3
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
4
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
5
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
6
Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.

Education
7
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
8
Passport Academy Charter School

The mission of the passport academy charter school ("passport academy") is to prepare college and career ready graduates to thrive in a diverse community through an engaging blended learning experience that supports individual student…

Education
9
Perkiomen School

A coeducational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12 with a mission of "inspiring students to risk being their best".

Education
10
Youthbuild Charter School of California

Our mission is to cultivate collaborative learning communities in which every student has the right to an authentic education, plays a meaningful role in creating a positive social change, and becomes and active participant in working…

Education
11
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
12
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School; the most unlike its peers is Friends of John Jay Athletics 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 45 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
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

MERIDEN PULIC SCHOOLS: $157,686 · OtherMERIDEN PULIC SCHOOLSRICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $128,445 · OtherRICHMOND PUBLIC SCHOOLSSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $63,442 · OtherSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDBETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $62,500 · OtherBETHLEHEM AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTDANBURY HIGH SCHOOL: $58,333 · OtherDANBURY HIGH SCHOOLALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $50,625 · OtherALLENTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICTPOCONO MOUNTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40,503 · OtherWHITEHALL-COPLAY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $37,307 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $34,000 · Other+28 more: $260,815 · Other+28 moreGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC: $84,700 · EducationGREEN STREE…LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,525 · EducationLEADERS IN …Peralta Colleges Foundation: $10,000 · EducationPeralta Col…5A ELITE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: $18,473 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $11,992 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF JOHN JAY ATHLETICS INC: $7,586 · Youth DevelopmentSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,148 · Human Services
Other$893,656Education$105,225Youth Development$38,051Recreation & Sports$15,000Human Services$10,148

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREEN STREET ACADEMY INC: $84,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budget5A ELITE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT: $18,473 over 2y, 36% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $11,992 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,525 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,148 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeralta Colleges Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN JAY ATHLETICS INC: $7,586 over 1y, 8.6% 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.

  • Who funds GREEN STREET ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds 5A ELITE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds LEADERS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
  • Who funds Peralta Colleges Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF JOHN JAY ATHLETICS INC ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Athlife Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Athlife Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 45 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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