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Foundation 4life Inc

Foundation 4life is building a legacy of service by fostering long-term, sustainable partnerships with families and communities around the world.

$298k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$467kEducation$356kFood & Nutrition$143kHuman Services$35kHealth$25kCommunity Improvement$17k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $135,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $298,153 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $163,153 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.
$135,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$135,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ESTHER-SINGLE MOTHER OUTREACH: $15k → 11%EAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION: $23k → 8%EAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $89k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $34k to organizations and $55k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Spain$40k · 45%

Stated purpose: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE

Dom. Republic$18k · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ORPHANAGE

Germany$16k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRAVEL ASSIST

Philippines$9k · 10%

Stated purpose: HOUSING ASSISTANCE

Brazil$6k · 7%

Stated purpose: CHILDREN'S FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$941k · 5 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$941k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+123%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GE
    Granite Education Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $308k · revenue +27%
  • EC
    EAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +229%
  • GC
    GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $23k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +153%
  • FT
    FIT TO RECOVER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
  • CH
    CHIRO HEROES
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
2
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

—
3
Fit Kids of America Corp

Fit kids of america, corp. provides educational programs for children including pre-school, daycare, academic tutoring, specialized youth fitness programs, team sports, nutrition education, healthy weight control for overweight children &…

Recreation & Sports
4
Marcella Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Feed the Hungry San Miguel Inc

Fthsm is a non-governmental organization that raises funds for feed the hungry, a.c. a mexican not-for-profit corporation which provides free meals for the poor of san miguel de allende, gto, mexico.

Food & Nutrition
6
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
7
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
8
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
9
Creighton Community Foundation

Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…

Philanthropy
10
The Houston Food Bank

Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…

—
11
Forafrika Usa

To provide emergency response, food security, nutrition, water and sanitation, health, education, agricultural and economic development to vulnerable communities in africa in dignified and sustainable ways.

Religion
12
Nurturing Nations

Help families and children with disabilities and/or vulnerabilities to escape the poverty cycle, primarily in ghana, mali, and the u.s.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed the Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

12 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $434,029 · OtherSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INCFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 · OtherGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $23,000 · OtherCHIRO HEROES: $20,000 · OtherGranite Education Foundation: $308,250 · EducationGranite Education FoundationFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $143,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDR…EAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION: $33,000 · Human ServicesEsther Single Mothers Outreach Inc: $14,500 · Human ServicesFIT TO RECOVER INC: $25,000 · HealthTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION: $16,520 · Community Improvement
Other$502,029Education$308,250International$143,000Human Services$47,500Health$25,000Community Improvement$16,520

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 budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $434,029 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $308,250 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $143,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE CONDOR FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFIT TO RECOVER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $23,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION: $16,520 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetEsther Single Mothers Outreach Inc: $14,500 over 8y, 7.4% 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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Foundation 4life Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation 4life Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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