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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.

$392k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
22
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$251kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 37 grants below total $375,550, the rows itemized in this filing. The $392,240 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,690 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $233k
$7,500
Median grant
22
States reached
$103k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY$30,000
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$17,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY$15,000
PENSACOLA CHRISTIOAN COLLEGE$15,000
WEATHERFORD COLLEGE$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$15,000
CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$15,000
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE$10,550
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS$10,000
THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON$10,000
MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA$10,000
THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER$10,000
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN: $10k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY: $15k → 13%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $15k → 10%UNIVERITY OF SAN FRANCISCO: $8k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%UNIVERISTY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $8k → 14%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $8k → 19%WEATHERFORD COLLEGE: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS: $8k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $8k → 13%THE COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $8k → 14%OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 20%PENSACOLA CHRISTIOAN COLLEGE: $15k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA: $10k → 13%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $10k → 15%SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTESVILLE: $8k → 13%MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPE HILL: $10k → 13%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $10k → 16%UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $18k → 8%KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%PAINE COLLEGE: $15k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $10k → 27%THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $10k → 10%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%MARYMOUNT COLLEGE: $10k → 7%HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $11k → 20%VIRGINIA TECH: $10k → 21%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 19%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%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
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

NY
PA
CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
AZ
TN
NC
GA
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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 4 repeat orgs$512k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$105k
$179k

Still filing today

0%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k
  • UV
    UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k
  • WC
    WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k

Funded once

  • PC
    Paine College
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +15%
  • TS
    Tennessee State University
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Wilson College

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

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
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
Columbia College

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

Education
8
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
9
Franklin University

Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…

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10
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
11
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
12
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The College of Wooster; the most unlike its peers is Mayfair Towers Corporation. 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

26 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. 26 of the 55 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
7/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $40,000 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKASAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITYUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherKJZZKBAQ (THROUGH MARICOPA COMMUNITY COLLEGES): $20,000 · OtherLOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,500 · OtherTennessee State University: $15,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · OtherCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $15,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $15,000 · Other+21 more: $181,250 · Other+21 morePaine College: $15,000 · EducationPaine CollegeWEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationWEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $15,000 · EducationPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INCMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $10,550 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · EducationJohn Carroll University: $10,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $10,000 · EducationOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+8 more: $60,000 · Education+8 more
Other$408,750Education$228,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaine College: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $10,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $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 budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGU CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds Paine College ↗
  • Who funds WEATHERFORD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAIRMONT STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA ↗
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds John Carroll University ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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 55 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 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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