Rhode Island · Public charity
Lifespan Corporation
Delivering health with care while maintaining a comprehensive, integrated, academic health system. Brown university health provided support services to its affiliates to assure the delivery of high-quality health services, medical education, and biomedical research.
- $850k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $760k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lifespan Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $760k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $163k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $187k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $198k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $171k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $86k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $238k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $167k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nonviolence Institute | $633,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Providence School Department | $620,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $270,795 | 8 | 0% |
| Providence Business News | $106,295 | 5 | n/a |
| Year Up Inc | $85,750 | 5 | 0% |
| The Tomorrow Fund | $50,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Hopehealth Hospice & Palliative Care | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ground Control Events | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce | $29,550 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nonviolence Institute | $633,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Providence School Department | $620,000 | 3 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $270,795 | 8 | 0% |
| Providence Business News | $106,295 | 5 | n/a |
| Year Up Inc | $85,750 | 5 | 0% |
| The Tomorrow Fund | $50,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Hopehealth Hospice & Palliative Care | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ground Control Events | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce | $29,550 | 3 | 1% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Quality Institute | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dancing for a Cause Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Bryant University | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House of Providence Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council | $10,750 | 2 | 1% |
| Arthritis Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edesia Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rhode Island Hispanic Chamber of Commerce | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Izzy Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lifespan Corporation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Employee Community Services Association · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Lifespan Corporation
- How much does Lifespan Corporation give?
- Lifespan Corporation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $760,200, out of $850,280 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lifespan Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Health (34%), Community Improvement (10%).
- Who are Lifespan Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nonviolence Institute ($634k), Providence School Department ($620k), American Heart Association Inc ($271k).
- Does Lifespan Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lifespan Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Employee Community Services Association, United Way of Rhode Island Inc, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is Lifespan Corporation based?
- Lifespan Corporation is based in RI.
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