Virginia · Private foundation
Spirit for Life Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Spirit for Life Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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 | 20 | $125k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $75k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $83k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $90k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $73k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $71k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $69k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $75k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Paws for Ability Inc | $57,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Fauquier Spca Inc | $54,000 | 9 | 1% |
| National Pku Alliance Inc | $50,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $42,200 | 6 | 0% |
| Paws for Seniors | $41,200 | 8 | 7% |
| Clean the World Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rockbridge Area Hospice Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $22,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Lost Dog Rescue Foundation | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Washington Memorial Chapel | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spirit for Life Foundation 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: Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · William a Hazel Family Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Global Impact · Give Back Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Spirit for Life Foundation
- How much does Spirit for Life Foundation give?
- Spirit for Life Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $124,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Spirit for Life Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (36%), Health (21%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Spirit for Life Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: 4 Paws for Ability Inc ($58k), Fauquier Spca Inc ($54k), National Pku Alliance Inc ($50k).
- Does Spirit for Life Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Spirit for Life Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Spirit for Life Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation, Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, William a Hazel Family Foundation.
- Where is Spirit for Life Foundation based?
- Spirit for Life Foundation is based in VA.
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