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· Public charity

The Life Fund

Educate the general public, and policy owners, beneficiaries and other appropriate constituencies of the value of the services of professional insurance professionals; and to educate the public of the significant and essential role that the life and health insurance industry and its products play in a sound social and economic system.

$226k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Education$251kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $201,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $226,250 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,000 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 · $6k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $195k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY$17,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA$15,000
PAINE COLLEGE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$15,000
TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$10,000
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA$10,000
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
MARYMOUNT COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $10k → 13%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $15k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPE HILL: $10k → 13%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $10k → 16%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $18k → 8%PAINE COLLEGE: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $10k → 27%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%MARYMOUNT COLLEGE: $10k → 7%TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 19%VIRGINIA TECH: $10k → 21%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%GALEN COLLEGE OF NURSING: $10k → 14%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

NY
PA
CA
UT
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KY
WV
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AZ
TN
NC
GA

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 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.

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Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
7
Trinity College

To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…

Education
8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
11
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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

10 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. 10 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA — $25,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $17,500 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $15,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $15,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINETennessee State University — $15,000 · OtherTennessee State UniversityWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAGALEN HEALTH INSTITUTES INC — $10,000 · OtherGALEN HEALTH INSTITUTES INCKJZZKBAQ (THROUGH MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES) — $10,000 · OtherKJZZKBAQ (THROUGH MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES)MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUVA CANCER CENTERUVA HEALTH SYSTEM — $10,000 · OtherUVA CANCER CENTERUVA HEALTH SYSTEMWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · OtherWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $6,250 · OtherPaine College — $15,000 · EducationPaine CollegeMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $12,500 · EducationMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INCGUILFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Other$173,750Education$87,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPaine College — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Folds of Honor FoundationOK13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Life Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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