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Life-Line Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Life-Line Inc

Assist groups involved in charitable, religious, education and/or scientific purposes.

$123k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$529kYouth Development$310kHealth$309kHuman Services$271kFood & Nutrition$35kPhilanthropy$15kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$240k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVIS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,950
DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$23,000
DAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$20,000
SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER$20,000
WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS$10,000
ONE REFUGEE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
DAVIS HOSPITAL$191
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $20k → 8%WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $10k → 8%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 6%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 8 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$1.4M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+5%

Still filing today

75%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • DE
    Davis Education Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $662k · revenue +112%
  • DB
    DAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $262k · revenue +89%
  • DT
    Davis Technical College Foundation Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $116k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • LB
    LIFELINE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $27k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +5%
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
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
2
Utah Geological Foundation
—
3
The Davies Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Interfaith Rotating Winter Shelter of Davis

Our mission is to assist people experiencing homelessness in the Davis community to obtain shelter, housing, and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Davis Tax Foundation
—
8
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
9
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

—
10
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
11
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
12
Utah Donor Collaborative Foundation

Utah Donor Collaborative Foundation educates and empowers diverse communities by supporting innovative programs that foster civic participation and voter access. We strive to inspire all voters, including the local youth population, rural…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bountiful Community Food Pantry; the most unlike its peers is Onerefugee. 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Davis Education Foundation: $662,398 · OtherDavis Education FoundationSafe Harbor Foundation: $101,500 · OtherSafe Harbor FoundationDEBRA LYNN'S: $40,000 · Other+7 more: $101,071 · Other+7 moreDAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $262,000 · HealthDAVIS BEHAVIORAL HE…Davis Technical College Foundation Inc: $115,950 · EducationDavis Technica…Onerefugee: $50,000 · EducationOnerefugeeBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 · EducationBOUNTIFUL COMM…Alpine School District Foundation: $10,000 · EducationSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $90,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARB…WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $30,000 · Human ServicesWRAP THE …The Community Foundation of Utah: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$904,969Health$262,000Education$190,950Human Services$120,000Philanthropy$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavis Education Foundation: $662,398 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetDAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $262,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDavis Technical College Foundation Inc: $115,950 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOnerefugee: $50,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Davis Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Davis Technical College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Onerefugee ↗
  • Who funds WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds Alpine School District Foundation ↗

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.

Ihc Health Services I…Larry H Miller and Ga…The Call FoundationJanet Q Lawson Founda…Utah's PromiseSorenson Legacy Found…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ihc Health Services IncUT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Call Foundation · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · Utah's Promise · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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-Line Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Life-Line Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Life-Line Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Life-Line Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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