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Lifeworks Foundation

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.

$224k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$192k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.2MEducation$39kRecreation & Sports$19kAnimals$17kArts & Culture$11kReligion$8kHealth$8kMembership Benefit$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $192k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALING STONES FOUNDATION$192,000
AMERICAN MALTESE ASSOCIATION$12,000
BELMONT UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF TN$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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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $1k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$1.3M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+123%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HS
    HEALING STONES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +86% · 100% of their budget
  • NB
    NASHVILLE BALLET
    2× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +49%
  • DA
    DOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CB
    CARTERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • SH
    SILOAM HEALTHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +31%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +112%
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
Tennessee Aquarium

The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.

Animals
2
Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals
3
Sugar Run 5K

Diabete Awarness

Health
4
Nashville Blues and Roots Alliance
Arts & Culture
5
Tennessee Titans Foundation
Philanthropy
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
Urban Green Lab

Urban green lab's mission is to teach communities how to live sustainably by providing education, tools, and programming to nashville households, workplaces, and schools focused on environmental sustainability, food waste reduction, and…

Environment
8
Tennessee Wildlife Federation Inc

Leading the conservation, sound management, and wise use of tennessee's wildlife and great outdoors, tennessee wildlife federation advocates sound natural resource policies and provides various educational programs that promote the…

Environment
9
Humanities Tennessee

To foster community and civility in tennessee through public programs that examine and reflect upon ideas, stories, history, arts, and culture.

Arts & Culture
10
Noahs Ark Animal Homestay Inc

Noah's Ark Animal Homestay Inc. is organized exclusively for public charitable purposes for the prevention of cruelty and rescue to animals. The organization is not-for-profit and obtained 501(c)(3) status from the IRS in 2022. We are…

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11
Whiskey Acres Sanctuary Mindy James
Animals
12
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harpeth Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Healing Stones Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALING STONES FOUNDATION: $1,218,000 · EnvironmentHEALING STONES FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentTN PARKS AND GREENWAYS FOUNDATION: $17,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TN: $17,500 · OtherCARTERVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherSILOAM HEALTH: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,200 · OtherAMERICAN MALTESE ASSOCIATION: $4,030 · OtherWEHELPANIMALS NET INC: $3,500 · Other+6 more: $8,001 · OtherBelmont University: $10,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationAMERICAN MALTESE ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · AnimalsRETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC: $500 · AnimalsTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsNASHVILLE BALLET: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2,000 · Human Services
Environment$1,219,000Other$75,231Education$16,000Animals$12,500Recreation & Sports$11,500Arts & Culture$10,000Human Services$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALING STONES FOUNDATION: $1,218,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetAMERICAN MALTESE ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBelmont University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE BALLET: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSILOAM HEALTH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARPETH CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYD TAVERN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNASHVILLE TREE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC: $500 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Steven & Laurie E…The Frist FoundationSandra Schatten Found…Carolyn Smith Foundat…Nashville Predators F…Anne Bransford Wallac…Louise B Wallace Foun…Gause FoundationThe Wade-Buntin Famil…Msb Cockayne Fund IncMemorial Foundation I…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Sandra Schatten Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Anne Bransford Wallace Foundation · Louise B Wallace Foundation 19702 · Gause Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc

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 Lifeworks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lifeworks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    4report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lifeworks Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lifeworks 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 24 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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