Alabama · 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.
- $167k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $148k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $351k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Better Life Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $148k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $132k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $105k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $76k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $140k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $145k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $185k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mulherin Custodial Home Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Team Focus Inc | $88,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Cherokee Boys Club Inc | $66,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chaplains Well Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 98% |
| Hope City Live Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Middle Tennessee State University Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cherokee Indian Hospital Foundation | $35,000 | 5 | 30% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Riptide Society | $27,000 | 1 | 14% |
Show all 43 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
The Better Life Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Better Life Foundation Inc
- How much does The Better Life Foundation Inc give?
- The Better Life Foundation Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $147,500, out of $167,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Better Life Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Youth Development (13%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Better Life Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mulherin Custodial Home Inc ($120k), Team Focus Inc ($89k), Cherokee Boys Club Inc ($66k).
- Does The Better Life Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Better Life Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is The Better Life Foundation Inc based?
- The Better Life Foundation Inc is based in AL.
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