· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $6,147,754 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,913,028 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,765,274 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Give Directly | $2,914,985 |
| Evidence Action | $434,641 |
| Against Malaria Foundation | $426,968 |
| Fistula Foundation | $377,181 |
| Project Healthy Children | $341,898 |
| Seva Foundation | $236,463 |
| Living Goods | $194,813 |
| Helen Keller International | $180,718 |
| Malaria Consortium | $141,351 |
| Fred Hollows Foundation | $135,418 |
| New Incentives | $131,629 |
| One Acre Fund | $111,881 |
| Village Enterprise | $104,719 |
| Population Services Internati | $91,007 |
| Oxfam America | $89,263 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of your 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
Grants abroad, by region — $3.8M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Grant-Making Exempt
Stated purpose: Grant-Making Exempt
Stated purpose: Grant-making Exempt
Stated purpose: Grant-Making Exempt
Stated purpose: Grant-making Exempt
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
The Fistula Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +57%- TAThe Against Malaria Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
- PHPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +163%
Funded once
- OFONE FOR THE WORLD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $159k · revenue +288% · 35% of their budget
- NHNYAYA HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue -47%
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.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Accelerate equitable access to eyeglasses for one billion people. eyelliance advances four mutually reinforcing global and national strategies, gov delivery, sustainable financing, institutional advocacy, and catalytic partnerships.
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Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Water for good's mission is to transform lives through sustainable access to safe water as well as improved sanitation and hygiene in the places that need it most.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
FINCA ends poverty through sustainable and scalable solutions inspired by the insights and needs of people in the communities where they live and work.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Nyaya Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 21 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
24 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.
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 GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVING GOODS ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN COOPERATIVE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ONE FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds NYAYA HEALTH ↗
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: 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
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 You Can Save 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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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Find your warmest path to The Life You Can Save through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.