Massachusetts · Private foundation
One Life Foundation Inc
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.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
79% of One Life Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $450,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,844,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations One Life Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 2 | $760k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $13k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $2k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $500 | 100% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $9k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $18k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tunefoolery Music Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Anikaya Akhra Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The International Institute of Buffalo | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Project H O P E Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Feed the Children Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc | $510 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tunefoolery Music Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Anikaya Akhra Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The International Institute of Buffalo | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Project H O P E Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| Feed the Children Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc | $510 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Food for Free Committee Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Mara Elephant Project USA Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Earth | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Ships International | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Technoserve Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Rescue Mission Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($776k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget One Life Foundation Inc 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About One Life Foundation Inc
- How much does One Life Foundation Inc give?
- One Life Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $3,604,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does One Life Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (99%), Arts & Culture (0%), International (0%).
- Who are One Life Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tunefoolery Music Inc ($40k), Anikaya Akhra Inc ($13k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($3k).
- Does One Life Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does One Life Foundation Inc 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 One Life Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is One Life Foundation Inc based?
- One Life Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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