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Live and Let Live Foundation at a glance

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Live and Let Live Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$182kInternational$117kEducation$44kHealth$6kCommunity Improvement$6kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$601Recreation & Sports$501Other$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $57k
$2,501
Median grant
5
States reached
$810k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAIN CENTER OF HOUSTON$46,953
PRATHAM USA$10,000
MAGIC BUS USA$5,000
BAPS ENDOWMENT INC$2,501
URBAN REVIVAL PROJECT INC$2,501
NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE$2,500
JAIN CENTER OF NEW JERSEY$1,203
JAIN SOCIETY OF VIRGINA$1,001
OLC FOUNDATION$501
TEXAS GAUSHALA$501
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%URBAN REVIVAL PROJECT INC: $3k → 8%URBAN REVIVAL PROJECT: $2k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$345k · 11 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -34% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
8

Total granted

$345k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-34%

Still filing today

45%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyInternationalAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman 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

  • MB
    MAGIC BUS USA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $89k · revenue +37%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +6%
  • UR
    URBAN REVIVAL PROJECT INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • VI
    VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -6%
  • LA
    Luvin Arms
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -34%
  • IG
    INTERNATIONAL GAUDIYA VEDANTA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Jain Network Usa

promote jain activities

Religion
2
Sampradaya Usa

Foster teachings of hindu religion

Religion
3
Vattikuti India Relief Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Uscan Vishanima Vaishnav
Public Benefit
5
Radha Govind Dham Dallas

Religious Organization

Religion
6
Kaival Gyan Chicago Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Oceans of Mercy

Missionary work in the nation of India

Religion
8
Varasiddhi
Arts & Culture
9
VedicTree Foundation
Food & Nutrition
10
Brahm Foundation

Religious worship daily poojas and festi

Education
11
Lakshmi Cow Sanctuary Inc
Animals
12
Jaipur Jewels in Texas Foundation
International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veerayatan International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jain Society of Virginia. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAIN CENTER OF HOUSTON: $106,193 · OtherJAIN CENTER OF HOUSTONJAIN CENTER OF NEW JERSEY: $72,359 · OtherJAIN CENTER OF NEW JERSEY+8 more: $21,376 · Other+8 moreMAGIC BUS USA: $88,500 · InternationalMAGIC BUS USASMILE FOUNDATION USA INC: $20,001 · InternationalSMILE FOUNDATION USA INCPRATHAM USA: $35,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USAVEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,075 · PhilanthropyVEERAYATAN IN…+1 more: $601 · PhilanthropyLuvin Arms: $3,000 · AnimalsTexas Gaushala: $1,503 · AnimalsURBAN REVIVAL PROJECT INC: $4,001 · Human ServicesNATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE: $2,500 · EducationOLC Foundation: $501 · EducationJain Society of Virginia: $1,001 · ReligionTEXAS HINDU CAMPSITE INC: $501 · Youth Development
Other$199,928International$108,501Philanthropy$43,676Animals$4,503Human Services$4,001Education$3,001Religion$1,001Youth Development$501

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAGIC BUS USA: $88,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE FOUNDATION USA INC: $20,001 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetVEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,075 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL PROJECT INC: $4,001 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLuvin Arms: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Gaushala: $1,503 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVEETRAG KALYAN KENDRA CORP: $601 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEXAS HINDU CAMPSITE INC: $501 over 1y, 0.0% 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 MAGIC BUS USA ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds SMILE FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
  • Who funds VEERAYATAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN REVIVAL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Luvin Arms ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY ACADEMY AT SAINT BONIFACE ↗
  • Who funds Texas Gaushala ↗
  • Who funds Jain Society of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds VEETRAG KALYAN KENDRA CORP ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HINDU CAMPSITE INC ↗
  • Who funds OLC Foundation ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to Live and Let Live Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Live and Let Live 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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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