· Public charity
Give Lively Foundation Inc
GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
A global nonprofit biomedical 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 engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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.
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 nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
How this is measured
1504 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Give Lively Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Give Lively Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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