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Spirit for Life Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Animals$272kHealth$158kHuman Services$107kEducation$98kInternational$39kReligion$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kCrime & Legal$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$6,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAUQUIER SPCA$10,000
K9S FOR WARRIORS$10,000
CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION$10,000
ROCKBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
PAWS FOR SENIORS$7,700
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$6,200
NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE$6,200
HERO'S BRIDGE$6,200
SAVING PRINCE WILLIAM LITTLES$6,200
WILLING WARRIORS$6,000
WINGS OF RESCUE$5,000
PAWS 4 A CURE$5,000
FOR THE CATS SAKE$5,000
THE BENJAMIN D OSBORN MEMORIAL FUND INC$5,000
PET ASSISTANCE INC$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 15%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $10k → 9%ASHLIE'S EMBRACE: $2k → 13%VIRGINIA WOMEN & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 7%FOR THE CATS SAKE: $5k → 10%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $10k → 9%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $10k → 9%WILLING WARRIORS: $8k → 7%ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE: $5k → 12%HERO DOGS INC: $8k → 8%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $10k → 9%WILLING WARRIORS: $6k → 7%ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE: $5k → 12%HERO DOGS INC: $5k → 8%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $8k → 9%ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE: $5k → 12%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%WILLING WARRIORS: $5k → 7%ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE: $5k → 12%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%MAKING EVERYTHING GOOD: $3k → 7%ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE: $5k → 12%HERO'S BRIDGE: $6k → 6%HERO'S BRIDGE: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$583k · 25 repeat orgs$156k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
23

Total granted

$583k
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+31%

Still filing today

76%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • 4P
    4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +2%
  • FS
    FAUQUIER SPCA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +95%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • MC
    MERCY CORPS DEPT W
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
2
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
3
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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4
Animals First Rescue of the Carolinas Inc

Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.

Animals
5
Duty First Assistance Dogs

Providing service dogs to veterans and first responders

Human Services
6
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
7
Florida Urgent Rescue

To rescue urgent animals.

Animals
8
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
9
Fuzzy Pawz Rescue Llc

Fuzzy Pawz is a small group of dedicated volunteers who open their homes and their hearts to unwanted dogs and cats. Our non-profit rescue does not have a facility but rather places each animal into a private home. We supply all vet care,…

Animals
10
Critical Animal Relief Foundation Nfp

Animal Rescue

Animals
11
No Dogs Left Behind
Animals
12
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is Last Chance for Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceHospice Care ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFallen First Responder Supp…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAUQUIER SPCA INC — $54,000 · AnimalsFAUQUIER SPCA INCPAWS FOR SENIORS — $41,200 · AnimalsPAWS FOR SENIORSLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION — $21,000 · AnimalsLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATIONCAT'S CRADLE OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC — $20,000 · AnimalsCAT'S CRADLE OF THE SHENANDOAH…THE CHANCE FOUNDATION — $13,500 · AnimalsTHE CHANCE FOUNDATIONK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $7,500 · AnimalsWINGS OF RESCUE INC — $7,500 · Animals+7 more — $27,500 · Animals+7 moreROCKBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL — $33,000 · OtherROCKBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOLNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS — $21,000 · OtherNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM - THE LUCAS FUND — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH …WASHINGTON MEMORIAL CHAPEL — $20,000 · OtherWASHINGTON MEMORIAL CHAPELSAVING PRINCE WILLIAMS LITTLES — $13,700 · OtherSAVING PRINCE WILLIAMS LITTLESMERCY CORPS DEPT W — $10,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE — $10,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · OtherCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS (COPS) — $7,500 · Other+12 more — $58,500 · Other+12 more4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $57,500 · Human Services4 PAWS FOR ABILITY IN…ROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPI…Serve Our Willing Warriors — $18,500 · Human ServicesServe Our Willing War…Hero Dogs Inc — $12,500 · Human ServicesHero Dogs IncHERO'S BRIDGE — $11,200 · Human ServicesHERO'S BRIDGEVIRGINIA WOMEN AND FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesFor the Cats Sake — $5,000 · Human ServicesCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 · Human Services+3 more — $6,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC — $50,200 · HealthNATIONAL PK…MID-ATLANTIC BURN CAMP FUND INCORPORATED — $11,500 · HealthMID-ATLANTI…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $10,000 · HealthSEMPER FI &…CHERRY BLOSSOM BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthCHERRY BLOS…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $42,200 · EducationSTEPHEN S…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $22,500 · EducationFOLDS OF …CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $3,000 · InternationalCenter for a Free Cuba — $3,000 · InternationalNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $17,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC — $6,000 · Crime & Legal
Animals$202,200Other$201,200Human Services$146,200Health$76,700Education$64,700International$42,000Crime & Legal$23,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC — $57,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFAUQUIER SPCA INC — $54,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC — $50,200 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $42,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR SENIORS — $41,200 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROCKBRIDGE AREA HOSPICE INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOST DOG RESCUE FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCAT'S CRADLE OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC — $20,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetServe Our Willing Warriors — $18,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation — $17,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHANCE FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetHero Dogs Inc — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMID-ATLANTIC BURN CAMP FUND INCORPORATED — $11,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetHERO'S BRIDGE — $11,200 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAUQUIER FISH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Support of Fauquier County Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetIBC Network Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHERRY BLOSSOM BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPaws 4 A Cure Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFor the Cats Sake — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLast Chance for Animals — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET ASSISTANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for a Free Cuba — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASHLIES EMBRACE — $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fauquier Health Found…Northern Piedmont Com…William a Hazel Famil…The Jesse and Rose Lo…Global ImpactGive Back FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Petsmart Charities IncVerizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path FoundationVA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Spirit for Life Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
  • Clean the World Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines