· Public charity
Life Time Foundation
Through financial grants and direct action, we support youth nutrition by helping schools serve wholesome, nourishing, minimally processed food to students; youth movement by championing physical movement programs that get children active and excited to move for life; and a healthy planet by supporting forestation and conservation…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $702k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FORESTS | $300,000 |
| THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NYC DOE | $150,000 |
| WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| ONE TREE PLANTED INC | $100,000 |
| ELIASSEN GROUP | $90,959 |
| NATIONAL FARM TO SCHOOL NETWORK | $61,480 |
| THE EDUCATION FUND | $50,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $50,000 |
| CITY PARKS FOUNDATIOATION | $45,000 |
| CITY PARKS FOUNDATIOATION | $40,000 |
| SUGI FOUNDATION | $38,000 |
| SWAN SOLUTIONS LLC | $35,063 |
| MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $29,500 |
| MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $634k 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
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $314k · revenue +544%
- CACHEF ANN FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $290k · revenue +781%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
- DPDENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -1%
- USURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $236k · revenue +160% · 25% of their budget
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.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
To improve public education by identifying and supporting the most promising education ventures in the country, and creating a nationwide network of education entrepreneurs committed to closing the achievement gap.
To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
With nature as our catalyst, we energize youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.
Eff is a nonprofit social impact fund that believes all children deserve a quality education. we empower high-performing public charter schools with equitable access to low-cost, long-term financing by innovatively combining…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in and the most unlike its peers is Native Strength Revolution Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
36 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. 36 of the 75 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 THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INTERSCHOLASTIC CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN ↗
- Who funds SUGi FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BICYCLING ASSOCIATION - COLORADO ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds NATIVE STRENGTH REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOPPET FOUNDATION 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: Share Our Strength · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Project Lead the Way Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Round It Up America Inc · Good Sports Inc · Project Lead the Way Inc · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Save the Music Foundation · Digital Promise Global · The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation · Southern Poverty Law Center Inc
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 Time 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.
- The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in — 0% of income from government
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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