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· Public charity

Resolve to Save Lives Inc

Our mission is to accelerate action against the world's deadliest health threats to save millions of lives.

$26M
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Health$17MEducation$1.4MInternational$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$720k
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $9,252,812, the rows itemized in this filing. The $25,594,216 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,341,404 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
  • $250k+8 grants · $9.0M
$597,462
Median grant
5
States reached
$145M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VITAL STRATEGIES INC$2,752,007
CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO FREE KIDS$1,500,000
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$1,420,000
CDC FOUNDATION$1,060,703
PATH$845,007
VITAL STRATEGIES INC$597,462
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION - PAHO$449,175
PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION$383,228
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$95,282
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$49,996
COALITION FOR AMERICAS HEALTH$49,980
PATH$49,972
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAST MILE HEALTH: $138k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $520k → 17%COALITION FOR AMERICAS HEALTH: $50k → 5%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $225k → 14%DETROIT ASSOCIATION OF BLACK ORGANIZATIONS INC: $58k → 21%FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL (FHI 360): $120k → 11%CDC FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 13%PATH: $845k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.7M → 19%CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $188k → 16%VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $2.8M → 17%PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION - PAHO: $1.1M → 14%PATH: $83k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 19%VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $1.9M → 17%PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION - PAHO: $449k → 14%PATH: $50k → 9%VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $1.0M → 17%CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO FREE KIDS: $1.5M → 14%PATH: $50k → 9%VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $923k → 17%CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $750k → 14%PATH: $7k → 9%VITAL STRATEGIES: $600k → 17%CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $220k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $95k → 9%VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $597k → 17%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $383k → 14%VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $8k → 17%PROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION: $307k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1.4M → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $120k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50k → 17%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $18M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$8.8M · 48% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH · PREVENT EPIDEMICS

Sub-Saharan Africa$4.3M · 24% · 25 grants

Stated purpose: PREVENT EPIDEMICS · CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH · PREVENT EPIDEMICS AND CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

South Asia$4.1M · 22% · 10 grants

Stated purpose: CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH · PREVENT EPIDEMICS

East Asia and the Pacific$618k · 3% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

South America$296k · 2% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH · PREVENT EPIDEMICS

Middle East and North Africa$133k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

Central America and the Caribbean$85k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 6 repeat orgs$5.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$14M
$3.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
InternationalHealthEducationScience & TechPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • VS
    VITAL STRATEGIES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +21%
  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +78%
  • P
    PATH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +26%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $225k · revenue +29%
  • CH
    CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $188k · revenue +9%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
3
Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health
4
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
5
Intealth

See schedule oto serve the public by:- assuring the qualifications of health care professionals- providing primary-source verification of credentials of health careprofessionals, as they serve throughout the world- supporting international…

Education
6
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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7
Intrahealth International Inc

Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.

Health
8
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
9
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Association of Academic Health Centers Inc

The association of academic health centers (aahc) seeks to improve the nation's health care system by mobilizing and enhancing the strengths and resources of the academic health center enterprise in health professions, education, patient…

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12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Todd County 4-H Leaders Council Mn. 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

18 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VITAL STRATEGIES INC: $7,733,072 · InternationalVITAL STRATEGIES INCPATH: $1,035,141 · InternationalPATHPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $690,188 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION …+3 more: $428,370 · InternationalJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,049,868 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,940,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…+1 more: $99,992 · EducationCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $2,470,000 · HealthCAMPAIGN FOR T…LAST MILE HEALTH: $137,500 · Health+1 more: $49,980 · HealthPAN AMERICAN SANITARY BUREAU: $1,598,353 · OtherPAN AMERI…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $95,282 · OtherUNIVERSIT…NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,060,703 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $225,000 · Science & TechTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG: $57,500 · Philanthropy
International$9,886,771Education$5,089,860Health$2,657,480Other$1,693,635Arts & Culture$1,060,703Science & Tech$225,000Philanthropy$57,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVITAL STRATEGIES INC: $7,733,072 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,049,868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $2,470,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,940,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,060,703 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPATH: $1,035,141 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $690,188 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC: $188,370 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $137,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFamily Health International Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $99,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT ASSOC OF BLACK ORG: $57,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR AMERICAS HEALTH INC: $49,980 over 2y, 24% 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.

Vital Strategies IncGates FoundationGavi AlliancePathJohns Hopkins Univers…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vital Strategies IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vital Strategies Inc · Gates Foundation · Gavi Alliance · Path · Johns Hopkins University · 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 Resolve to Save Lives Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Resolve to Save Lives Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Resolve to Save Lives Inc 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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $30M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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