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Life Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ETCH FOR AFRICA | $22,000 |
| CORNER CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| SUMMIT MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| OVATE CONCERN | $2,500 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | $2,500 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CENTER OF HOPE | $1,750 |
| GREENBELT AREA CHRISTIAN CONCERTS | $1,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S CENTER | $200 |
| BARLOW MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $100 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHONA SOCIETY | $25 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOC | $25 |
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 (FY23–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- HMHOPE MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +22%
- DWDIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +111%
- SMSUMMIT MINISTRIES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MFMASHIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- FCFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- TFTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +570%
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.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
Christian horizons empowers older adults in mind, body, and spirit through faith-led service. our services are driven by our f.a.i.t.h.-led values which include: fun - we foster personalized experiences filled with joy for those we serve,…
We, mercy clinics and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy clinics is a member of trinity health.
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…
The mission of pella regional health center is to provide healthcare and healing services with christian compassion.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
We, mercy health services - iowa and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. hospice of north iowa is a member of mercy health services - iowa…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Leader Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 50 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.
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DIAMOND WILLOW MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ETCH for Africa ↗
- Who funds OYATE CONCERN INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTER OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds RBC MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One Vision ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA FALLS COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds HANSEN FAMILY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IOWA INC ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Life Foundation 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.
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