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Life Hope Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$800
Largest grant, FY2024
$13,417
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$416k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Life Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$20k38%
FY20238$36k38%
FY20227$25k29%
FY202112$72k67%
FY20207$20k86%
FY201910$15kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
CA
UT
MD
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heritage Schools Inc$32,72240%
Ken Garff for Good$15,52040%
Special Olympics Utah Inc$10,75040%
Libertas Network$5,50020%
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$3,00010%
Vlcm Foundation$2,60022%
Bridge of Love$1,70022%
Atlanta Braves Foundation$59010%
Nebo School District$5001n/a
Kostopulos Dream Foundation$25010%
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All grantees of Life Hope Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Heritage Schools Inc$32,72240%
Ken Garff for Good$15,52040%
Special Olympics Utah Inc$10,75040%
Libertas Network$5,50020%
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$3,00010%
Vlcm Foundation$2,60022%
Bridge of Love$1,70022%
Atlanta Braves Foundation$59010%
Nebo School District$5001n/a
Kostopulos Dream Foundation$25010%
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation$20010%
The American Legion$10010%
Giants Community Fund$10010%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Life Hope Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Life Hope Foundation

How much does Life Hope Foundation give?
Life Hope Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $20,152 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Life Hope Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Philanthropy (30%), Health (16%).
Who are Life Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: American Heritage Schools Inc ($33k), Ken Garff for Good ($16k), Special Olympics Utah Inc ($11k).
Does Life Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Life Hope Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Life Hope Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, American Express Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Life Hope Foundation based?
Life Hope Foundation is based in UT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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