· Public charity
The Better Life Foundation Inc
To raise funds for children in need of food, shelter, & medical assistance as well as for the enhancement of chidlren & young adults wiht special needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $147,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $167,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST MEN | $25,000 |
| PROMISE KEEPERS | $20,000 |
| MULHERIN HOME | $15,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR OHIO | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CHAPLAINS WELL | $10,000 |
| TEAM FOCUS | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MCMulherin Custodial Home Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +20%
- CWChaplains Well Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +55% · 98% of their budget
- CICHEROKEE INDIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +13% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- HCHOPE CITY LIVE INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- RSRIPTIDE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $27k
- MPMISSION POSSIBLEone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is HINDERLESS22-the Ronnie Mcnutt Foundation. 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 43 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM FOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds Chaplains Well Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE INDIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIPTIDE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CELISSE'S SCHOOL OF EQUESTRIAN ARTS ↗
- Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
- Who funds MISSION POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds DOORS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds Nikki Mitchell Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc ↗
- Who funds HINDERLESS22-THE RONNIE MCNUTT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds 6 33 RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds GET STRONG MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Eblen Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEDY'S TEAM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Better Life Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy Center Inc — 51% of income from government
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.
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