California · Public charity
The Life You Can Save
The Life You Can Save's mission is to improve the lives of people living in poverty by changing the way people think about, and donate to charity. Our vision is to live in a world where there is no global poverty.
- $9.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $6.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $135,418
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,914,985
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Life You Can Save funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 20 | $6.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $4.0M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $4.2M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Givedirectly Inc | $3,861,864 | 5 | 1% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $1,685,299 | 5 | 3% |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | $1,405,534 | 5 | 1% |
| Project Healthy Children Inc | $1,278,111 | 5 | 5% |
| Village Enterprise Fund | $970,420 | 5 | 6% |
| Evidence Action | $937,424 | 5 | 1% |
| Helen Keller International | $813,727 | 5 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $769,917 | 5 | 2% |
| Malaria Consortium US Inc | $768,770 | 5 | 7% |
| The Fred Hollows Foundation | $756,029 | 5 | 20% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Givedirectly Inc | $3,861,864 | 5 | 1% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $1,685,299 | 5 | 3% |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | $1,405,534 | 5 | 1% |
| Project Healthy Children Inc | $1,278,111 | 5 | 5% |
| Village Enterprise Fund | $970,420 | 5 | 6% |
| Evidence Action | $937,424 | 5 | 1% |
| Helen Keller International | $813,727 | 5 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $769,917 | 5 | 2% |
| Malaria Consortium US Inc | $768,770 | 5 | 7% |
| The Fred Hollows Foundation | $756,029 | 5 | 20% |
| Living Goods | $710,121 | 5 | 1% |
| One Acre Fund | $709,781 | 5 | 0% |
| Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition | $690,720 | 5 | 0% |
| Population Services International | $672,005 | 5 | 0% |
| Oxfam-America Inc | $602,052 | 5 | 0% |
| New Incentives | $577,781 | 5 | 1% |
| Evergreen Cooperative Corporation | $529,113 | 4 | 5% |
| Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation | $421,673 | 5 | 0% |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $336,334 | 4 | 0% |
| Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev | $264,868 | 3 | 6% |
| Center for Carbon Removal | $244,983 | 4 | 1% |
| Georgetown University | $217,018 | 3 | 0% |
| One for the World Inc | $159,316 | 1 | 35% |
| Nyaya Health | $31,095 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
The Life You Can Save supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · First Dollar Foundation · Mulago Foundation · The Clear Fund · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Gates Foundation · Network for Good · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Life You Can Save
- How much does The Life You Can Save give?
- The Life You Can Save reported 20 itemized grants totaling $6,147,754, out of $9,913,028 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Life You Can Save fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (47%), Human Services (21%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Life You Can Save's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Givedirectly Inc ($3.9M), The Fistula Foundation ($1.7M), The Against Malaria Foundation ($1.4M).
- Does The Life You Can Save fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Life You Can Save?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, First Dollar Foundation, Mulago Foundation.
- Where is The Life You Can Save based?
- The Life You Can Save is based in CA.
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