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Lifenet Foundation

The lifenet health foundation is a 501(c)3 charitable organization that is dedicated to raising funds for donor family support programs, public and professional awareness campaigns that promote the vital need for donation, and research and development efforts surrounding transplantation.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$571kEducation$28k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $55,163, the rows itemized in this filing. The $63,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$45,163
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFENET HEALTH$45,163
LIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Medical University of South Carolina: $8k → 12%Duke University: $21k → 11%LIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST: $12k → 9%Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center: $9k → 5%LifeNet Health: $123k → 10%Shenandoah Memorial Hospital: $9k → 12%CENTRAL HEALTH INC: $9k → 13%SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%BON SECOURS MEMORIAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $9k → 22%Medical University of South Carolina College of D: $8k → 12%LIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST: $10k → 9%LIFENET HEALTH: $55k → 10%CHIPPENHAM & JOHNSON-WILLIS HOSPITAL INC: $9k → 22%Medical University of South Carolina: $7k → 12%LIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST: $10k → 9%LIFENET HEALTH: $46k → 10%Chippenham & Johnson-Willis Hospital Inc: $9k → 22%LIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST: $9k → 9%LIFENET HEALTH: $45k → 10%LifeNet Health: $37k → 10%LIFENET HEALTH: $34k → 10%LifeNet Health: $32k → 10%Florida Tissue Services: $25k → 10%LIFENET HEALTH: $20k → 10%LIFENET HEALTH FLORIDA: $15k → 10%LIFENET HEALTH FLORIDA: $10k → 10%LIFENET HEALTH FLORIDA: $8k → 10%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$531k · 5 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$531k
$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+6%

Still filing today

40%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LH
    LIFENET HEALTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $392k · revenue +59%
  • FT
    FLORIDA TISSUE SERVICES INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $57k · revenue +9%
  • LH
    LIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST
    4× · 2021–2024 · $41k

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue +51%
  • MR
    Memorial Regional Medical Center Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue 0%
  • BS
    Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -66%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFENET HEALTH: $392,496 · HealthLIFENET HEALTHFLORIDA TISSUE SERVICES INC: $57,325 · HealthFLORIDA TISSUE SERVICES INC+1 more: $8,500 · HealthLIFENET HEALTH NORTHWEST: $41,100 · OtherLIFENET HEALTH NORTHW…PHI CHI MEDICAL FRATERNITY INC: $22,596 · OtherPHI CHI MEDICAL FRATE…CHIPPENHAM & JOHNSON-WILLIS HOSPITAL INC: $17,000 · OtherCHIPPENHAM & JOHNSON-…Memorial Regional Medical Center Inc: $8,500 · OtherMemorial Regional Med…Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc: $8,500 · OtherBon Secours - St Mary…HENRICO'S DOCTORS HOSPITAL: $8,500 · OtherHENRICO'S DOCTORS HOS…VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM: $8,500 · OtherVALLEY HEALTH SYSTEMDUKE UNIVERSITY: $21,000 · EducationTHE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$458,321Other$114,696Education$21,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetLIFENET HEALTH: $392,496 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA TISSUE SERVICES INC: $57,325 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Regional Medical Center Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRA HEALTH INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% 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 LIFENET HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA TISSUE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Regional Medical Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bon Secours - St Mary's Hospital of Richmond Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTRA HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SARAH MICHELLE PETERSON FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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    How do I get to Lifenet Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lifenet Foundation 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 12 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 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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