Skip to content
Gift of Life Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Gift of Life Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to promoting and supporting michigan's donation and transplant community.

$367k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$139k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$455kPhilanthropy$281kEducation$46kRecreation & Sports$20kHuman Services$5k
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $189,641, the rows itemized in this filing. The $366,685 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $177,044 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $139k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIFT OF LIFE MICHIGAN$138,500
JACKSON COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER$11,654
TRANSPLANT GAMES OF AMERICA$10,000
EVERSIGHT MICHIGAN$10,000
ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION$8,139
DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN$6,000
LENAWEE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER$5,348
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 8%TRANSPLANT GAMES OF AMERICA: $10k → 11%LENAWAEE MEDICAL EXAMINER: $10k → 12%ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%JACKSON COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER: $12k → 13%GIFT OF LIFE MICHIGAN: $142k → 14%Henry Ford Health System: $12k → 21%DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 8%LENAWAEE MEDICAL EXAMINER: $9k → 12%ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%GIFT OF LIFE MICHIGAN: $139k → 14%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $12k → 21%DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 8%Lenawee County Medical Examiner: $6k → 12%WMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $17k → 12%Donate Life Coalition of Michigan: $20k → 14%HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $12k → 21%DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 8%LENAWEE COUNTY MEDICAL EXAMINER: $5k → 12%WMU Homer Stryker School of Medicine: $14k → 12%DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%DONATE LIFE COALITION OF MICHIGAN: $19k → 8%WMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $9k → 12%GIFT OF LIFE MICHIGAN: $14k → 14%WMU HOMER STRYKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $6k → 12%National Kidney Foundation of Michigan: $10k → 14%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%EVERSIGHT MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%EVERSIGHT MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $9k → 14%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $8k → 14%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $7k → 14%GIFT OF LIFE MICHIGAN: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%University of Michigan: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%University of Michigan: $17k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $14k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $14k → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$785k · 9 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$785k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
-25%

Still filing today

78%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationOther
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

  • OP
    ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGAN
    4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +69%
  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $46k · revenue +45%
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc
    5× · 2017–2022 · $45k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • CO
    COUNTY OF JACKSON MICHIGAN DEPT ON AGING
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • TL
    TRANSPLANT LIFE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -25%
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
Midwest Transplant Network Inc

Saving lives by honoring the gift of organ and tissue donation with dignity and compassion.

Health
2
Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
3
Lifegift Organ Donation Center

The mission of lifegift is to provide community benefit by ethically, effectively and efficiently recovering appropriately transplantable organs and tissue to give the gift of life. lifegift also provides public and professional education…

Health
4
Lifelink Foundation Inc

To honor donors and save lives through organ and tissue donation. (expanded mission on schedule o)

Health
5
Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network

To save and enhance the lives of as many people as possible through organ and tissue donation.

Health
6
Gift of Life Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to promoting and supporting michigan's donation and transplant community.

—
7
Henry Ford Health Macomb Oakland Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
8
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations

Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc

We provide innovative human biologic solutions that maximize the gift of donation.

Health
11
Henry Ford Health Providence Hospital

As one of the nation's leading integrated health systems, it is the mission of henry ford health system, a related entity of the filing organization, to improve people's lives through the excellence of the science and art of health care…

Health
12
American Association of Kidney Patients Inc

AAKP is dedicated to improving the lives and long-term outcome of kidney patients. Cont on Sch O.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan; the most unlike its peers is National Kidney Foundation of Michigan 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 11 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGAN: $300,339 · OtherORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGANREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $165,667 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANLENAWEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT ON AGING: $30,384 · OtherLENAWEE COUNTY DEPARTMENT ON AGINGEversight: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $29,793 · Other+2 moreMICHIGAN COALITION ON DONATION: $124,500 · HealthMICHIGAN COALITION ON DONATIONNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $44,509 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation of …HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $35,621 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMTRANSPLANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $46,092 · Education
Other$546,183Health$214,630Education$46,092

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 budgetORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGAN: $300,339 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN COALITION ON DONATION: $124,500 over 7y, 57% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $46,092 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $44,509 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $35,621 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEversight: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $18,139 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRANSPLANT LIFE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 ORGAN PROCUREMENT AGENCY OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN COALITION ON DONATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc ↗
  • Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds Eversight ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPLANT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Gift of Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gift of Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 11 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Gift of Life’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home