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Lifes A Sport USA

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$121k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Lifes A Sport USA funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsEducationHealthOther
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 arriving6$4k83%
FY20234$3k50%
FY20224$3k75%
FY20216$5k83%
FY20207$5kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$12kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kHealth$900International$602Community Improvement$300Religion$100Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
WY
CA
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lifes A Sport USA supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCalifornia Polytechnic State University Foundation: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUsta Foundation Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lpga Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJackson Hole Ski & Snowboard Club: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaby Quest Foundation Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWoodson Center: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeton Adaptive: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $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 14.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Lifes A Sport USA?

Find your warmest path to Lifes A Sport USA 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.

About Lifes A Sport USA

How much does Lifes A Sport USA give?
Lifes A Sport USA reported 6 grants totaling $3,901 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lifes A Sport USA fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Human Services (12%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
Who are Lifes A Sport USA's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: California Polytechnic State University Foundation ($9k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($2k), California Fire Foundation ($1k).
Does Lifes A Sport USA fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lifes A Sport USA accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lifes A Sport USA?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lifes A Sport USA based?
Lifes A Sport USA is based in WY.

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 23 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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