· Public charity
Learning for Life
Learning for Life is a character education program designed to support schools and community- based organizations in their efforts to prepare youth to successfully handle the complexities of our contemporary society.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $117,299 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $263,510 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $146,211 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k3 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CIRCLE TEN CNCL 571 | $52,775 |
| CONNECTICUT RIVERS CNCL #66 | $14,605 |
| GREATER NEW YORK CNCL NO 640 | $12,024 |
| GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN CNCL NO 557 | $10,750 |
| SAMOSET CNCL #627 | $9,785 |
| CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL No 160 | $9,585 |
| PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL | $7,775 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of your 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 -3% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
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
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL3× · 2017–2019 · $72k · revenue +18%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $22k · revenue -9%
- BOBOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL2× · 2018–2019 · $19k · revenue -3%
Funded once
- SFSOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue -32%
- CICALIFORNIA INLAND EMPIRE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -38%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEEone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -1%
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.
It is the mission of scouting america, greater hudson valley council, inc. to deliver the highest-quality, values-based youth program of character development and leadership training, based upon the precepts embodied in the scout oath and…
The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetime by instilling in them the values of the scout law and oath.
The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…
To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…
Provide youth services through the execution of the charter of the national council boy scouts of america.
Prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling the values of the scout oath & law.
To promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of america, the…
To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
To try and prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them values of the scout oath and law.
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.scout oath:on my honor, i will do my best to do my duty…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boy Scouts of America Connecticut Rivers Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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.
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYSCOUTS OF AMERICA 627 SAMOSET COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INLAND EMPIRE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN COUNCIL 557 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
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: NRA Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Learning for Life 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.
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.