· Private foundation
Fund for Life Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of Fund for Life Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Donors Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 26 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Fund for Life Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| E 19 STUDIOS LLC | $2,256,250 |
| KHAL KOLLEL TSANZ | $477,000 |
| CHEVRA SHAS KEREN YESHUA OF MONSEY | $160,000 |
| BAYIS ESTER | $85,000 |
| CONG YESODE HATORAH | $50,000 |
| YESHIVA SHEARITH HAPLETAH | $40,000 |
| T T LIZENSK | $15,000 |
| CONG SHEARITH HAPLETA | $10,000 |
| BETH CHANA SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BNOS SANZ | $10,000 |
| CONG SANZ FOR LAKEWOOD INC | $8,000 |
| BNOS BROCHA INC | $6,000 |
| THE OJC FUND | $3,950 |
| BNOS ESTHER MALKA INC | $3,000 |
| YESHIVA MKOR CHAIM | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 43 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TTTALMUD TORAH BAIS AVROHOM INC4× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +29%
- YIYESHIVA IMREI BINA INC2× · 2019–2020 · $32k · revenue +46%
- YOYESHIVA OHR YEHUDA INC4× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- BABNEI AVROHOMone grant, 2020 · $300k
- CGCONGREGATION & GMACH TOMCHEI TORAHone grant, 2021 · $150k
- CZCONGREGATION ZICHRON REFOEL INCone grant, 2019 · $80k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Religious Teaching
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
Religious School
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Provide a building for a religious school.
A jewish secondary school which seeks to inculcate its students with high character and religious values to produce future religious leaders
Support of religious schools in Israel
Providing secular and religious education for elementary and high school aged students
Raise funds for charitable purposes
Religious & charitable- to provide funds to enable the study of torah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bais Yehuda Perach Rochel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 188 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · S&W Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · Ichai Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · The Margareten Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Greenzweig Family Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fund for Life Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Toras Imecha Inc — 22% of income from government
- Bnos Bracha Inc — 9% of income from government
- Bais Tova Inc — 7% of income from government
- Yeshiva Ohr Yehuda Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bnos Esther Malka Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.