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Life Hope Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$79kPhilanthropy$57kHealth$30kRecreation & Sports$14kCivil Rights$6kInternational$2kArts & Culture$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$800
Median grant
4
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Heritage School$13,417
Success in Education Foundation$3,750
Individual grant recipient$1,015
UVU Foundation$800
Atlanta Braves Foundation$590
Individual grant recipient$280
National Fallen Firefighters Founda$200
Giants Community Fund$100
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%K-Love: $1k → 6%Giants Community Fund: $100 → 10%BYU Hawaii: $14k → 9%Hillsdale College: $500 → 14%Success in Education Foundation: $5k → 8%Eric Bingham: $12k → 8%Manti High School: $2k → 15%Atlanta Braves Foundation: $590 → 8%The American Legion: $100 → 16%Cubs Charities: $400 → 14%National Fallen Firefighters Founda: $200 → 6%Success in Education Foundation: $4k → 8%Spanish Fork High School: $500 → 8%Success in Education Foundation: $3k → 8%Springville High Basketball: $500 → 8%Success in Education Foundation: $3k → 8%American Heritage School: $13k → 8%Special Olympics Utah: $4k → 8%American Heritage School: $11k → 8%Huntsman Cancer Foundation: $3k → 8%Animal Crackers Preschool: $9k → 8%Make-A-Wish: $4k → 8%American Heritage School: $8k → 8%Special Olympics Utah: $3k → 8%American Heritage School: $250 → 8%Make-A-Wish: $2k → 8%Libertas Institute: $4k → 8%Special Olympics Utah: $3k → 8%Libertas Institute: $2k → 8%VLCM Foundation: $2k → 8%Wendy Svendsen: $5k → 8%Kostopulos Dream Foundation: $250 → 8%UVU Wolverine Athletics: $1k → 8%VLCM Foundation: $800 → 8%UVU Giving and Development: $800 → 8%Special Olympics Utah: $2k → 8%UVU Foundation: $800 → 8%Bridge of Love: $1k → 8%UVU Wolverine Athletics: $280 → 8%UVU Wolverine Athletics: $250 → 8%Bridge of Love: $700 → 8%UVU Foundation: $200 → 8%The Story Cupboard: $114 → 8%Everest Community Foundation: $220 → 8%LDS Philanthropies: $57k → 8%Lone Peak High School: $455 → 8%Lone Peak High School: $250 → 8%Lone Peak High School: $200 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$91k · 11 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$91k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
-9%

Still filing today

55%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $890 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHealthInternationalOther

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

  • AH
    American Heritage Schools Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +101%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +106%
  • LN
    Libertas Network
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • LP
    LDS Philanthropies
    one grant, 2021 · $57k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • AC
    Animal Crackers Preschool
    one grant, 2022 · $9k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Hawaii Foundation

To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.

Education
2
Canyons School District Education Foundation

Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…

Education
3
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

4
Utah Sports Commission Foundation

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…

Recreation & Sports
5
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
National Medal of Honor Center for Leadership

The national medal of honor center for leadership prepares individuals to lead with courage, integrity, and service by delivering immersive, values based leadership education rooted in the enduring principles of the medal of honor. through…

Philanthropy
8
The Winsor School

Our mission: the winsor school prepares young women to pursue their aspirations and contribute to the world.

Education
9
Valor Texas Education Foundation

Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…

Education
10
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

11
United States Ski Team Foundation

Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.

Recreation & Sports
12
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridge of Love. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LDS Philanthropies — $57,000 · OtherLDS PhilanthropiesIndividual grant recipient — $13,590 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $13,015 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAnimal Crackers Preschool — $8,500 · OtherAnimal Crackers PreschoolMake-A-Wish — $5,509 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $4,500 · Other+17 more — $16,229 · Other+17 moreAmerican Heritage Schools Inc — $32,722 · EducationAmerican Heritage S…+1 more — $500 · EducationKEN GARFF FOR GOOD — $15,520 · Youth DevelopmentKEN GARFF…SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC — $10,750 · Recreation & SportsAtlanta Braves Foundation — $590 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $250 · Recreation & SportsLibertas Network — $5,500 · Public BenefitHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $3,000 · HealthBRIDGE OF LOVE — $1,700 · InternationalGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $100 · Philanthropy
Other$118,343Education$33,222Youth Development$15,520Recreation & Sports$11,590Public Benefit$5,500Health$3,000International$1,700Philanthropy$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmerican Heritage Schools Inc — $32,722 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD — $15,520 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC — $10,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLibertas Network — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVLCM FOUNDATION — $2,600 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBRIDGE OF LOVE — $1,700 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetAtlanta Braves Foundation — $590 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 American Heritage Schools Inc
  • Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC
  • Who funds Libertas Network
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds VLCM FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRIDGE OF LOVE
  • Who funds Atlanta Braves Foundation
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation
  • Who funds NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The American Legion
  • Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Express Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Hope 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation24% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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