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Life Hope Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
CA
UT
MD
HI
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +101% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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
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.

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
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Utah Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Found…American Express Foun…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Life Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Life Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: 24% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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