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Spirit for Life Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SAVING PRINCE WILLIAM LITTLES$6,200
HERO'S BRIDGE$6,200
NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE$6,200
WILLING WARRIORS$6,000
WINGS OF RESCUE$5,000
FOR THE CATS SAKE$5,000
VIRGINIA WOMEN & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER$5,000
THE BENJAMIN D OSBORN MEMORIAL FUND INC$5,000
FOUNDATION FOR FELINE RENAL RESEARCH$5,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

+42%
+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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherCONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS (COPS): $7,500 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWINGS OF RESCUE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD FIND OF AMERICA INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPaws 4 A Cure Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE OF TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAUQUIER FISH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIBC Network Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVIRGINIA WOMEN AND FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHERRY BLOSSOM BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetLast Chance for Animals: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPET ASSISTANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHospice Support of Fauquier County Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFor the Cats Sake: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHAPMAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for a Free Cuba: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOMELESS ANIMALS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHLIES EMBRACE: $1,500 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

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

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 Spirit for Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spirit for Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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.

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 58 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home