· Public charity
Give Lively Foundation Inc
GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 177 grants below total $5,617,385 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,920,756 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,303,371 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k75 grants · $524k
- $10k–50k79 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $487,869 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA | $358,706 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $292,229 |
| CHARITY NAVIGATOR | $266,463 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $258,022 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $222,860 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $190,954 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $181,809 |
| PASADENA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $159,804 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $140,434 |
| GET THE GIST | $125,000 |
| THE NEW 42ND STREET | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $92,616 |
| HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC | $81,145 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $75,233 |
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 (FY21–25, $8.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
952 repeat relationships — 150 still active in FY2025, 802 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $911k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +20%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +167%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2021–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- YCYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +94%
- PIPianofest Incone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -2% · 63% of their budget
- MUMAUI UNITED WAYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $239k · revenue +188%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
1504 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. 1504 of the 1,562 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
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- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
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- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Carl E Kessler Family Foundation · Give Back Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Marni & Morris Propp II Family Foundation Inc · Bradford Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · The John a Rodger Jr Foundation Inc · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · America's Charities
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 Give Lively 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.
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