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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.

$9.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$9.2MHuman Services$4.1MHealth$2.8MFood & Nutrition$2.0MEnvironment$581kCommunity Improvement$529kEducation$217k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $6,147,754, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,913,028 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,765,274 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.5M
$135,418
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Project Healthy Children: $404k → 11%Oxfam America: $166k → 16%Village Enterprise: $362k → 7%Fistula Foundation: $473k → 8%Seva Foundation: $236k → 10%Equalize Health: $157k → 10%New Incentives: $157k → 14%One For The World: $159k → 17%Against Malaria Foundation: $427k → 15%Malaria Consortium: $182k → 8%Evergreen Collaborative: $316k → 9%One Acre Fund: $188k → 8%Project Healthy Children: $342k → 11%Oxfam America: $152k → 16%VILLAGE ENTERPRISE: $250k → 7%Fistula Foundation: $377k → 8%Seva Foundation: $179k → 10%New Incentives: $146k → 14%Fred Hollows Foundation: $279k → 17%Against Malaria Foundation: $326k → 15%Malaria Consortium: $176k → 8%One Acre Fund: $156k → 8%Project Healthy Children: $293k → 11%Village Enterprise: $183k → 7%Fistula Foundation: $342k → 8%Fred Hollows Foundation: $160k → 17%Against Malaria Foundation: $298k → 15%MALARIA CONSORTIUM: $158k → 8%Fistula Foundation: $267k → 8%Living Goods: $195k → 10%Evidence Action: $435k → 14%AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION: $207k → 15%Malaria Consortium: $141k → 8%FISTULA FOUNDATION: $226k → 8%Living Goods: $173k → 10%The GAIN: $201k → 14%Against Malaria Foundation: $148k → 15%Clean Air Task Force: $176k → 16%Living Goods: $145k → 10%GAIN: $183k → 14%GAIN: $166k → 14%Population Services Internati: $165k → 14%Population Services International: $155k → 14%POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $150k → 14%Evidence Action: $144k → 14%Helen Keller International: $245k → 17%Helen Keller International: $181k → 17%Helen Keller International: $168k → 17%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
NC
DC

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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.1M · 56% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Grant-Making Exempt

South Asia$725k · 19% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Grant-Making Exempt

Sub-saharah Afr$553k · 15% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Grant-making Exempt

North America (Canada and Mexico)$362k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Grant-Making Exempt

East Asia and the Pacific$10k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Grant-making Exempt

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 22 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
2

Total granted

$19M
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+288%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • The Fistula Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +57%
  • TA
    The Against Malaria Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
  • PH
    PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +443%

Funded once

  • OF
    ONE FOR THE WORLD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $159k · revenue +288% · 35% of their budget
  • NH
    NYAYA HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue -47%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A global nonprofit biomedical research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Fund for the Global Fund

To encourage individuals, corporations, foundations and donor governments to support the global fund, an international foundation focused on ending three of the world's most deadly infectious diseases.

Human Services
3
Path

Path makes good health more accessible in 70+ countries by improving the health care people receive, creating affordable health products, and advancing effective health policies. across all our projects and programs, (continued on schedule…

International
4
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
5
Alight

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…

International
6
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
7
Finca International Inc

FINCA ends poverty through sustainable and scalable solutions inspired by the insights and needs of people in the communities where they live and work.

International
8
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
9
International Development Enterprises

See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.

International
10
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
11
The One Campaign

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…

Unclassified
12
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc

We enable countries to cure avoidable blindness by developing high quality, cost-effective eye care in underserved areas of the world.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $1,278,111 · InternationalPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INCVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $970,420 · InternationalVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUNDEVIDENCE ACTION: $937,424 · InternationalEVIDENCE ACTIONHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $813,727 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALSEVA FOUNDATION: $769,917 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATIONLIVING GOODS: $710,121 · InternationalLIVING GOODSONE ACRE FUND: $709,781 · InternationalONE ACRE FUNDOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $602,052 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCNEW INCENTIVES: $577,781 · InternationalNEW INCENTIVESThe Fistula Foundation: $1,685,299 · HealthThe Fistula FoundationThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,405,534 · HealthThe Against Malaria Foundat…MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $768,770 · HealthMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INCTHE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION: $756,029 · HealthTHE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION+1 more: $31,095 · HealthGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $3,861,864 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCGLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION: $690,720 · Food & NutritionEVERGREEN COOPERATIVE CORPORATION: $529,113 · Community ImprovementONE FOR THE WORLD INC: $159,316 · Community ImprovementPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $672,005 · OtherPOPULATIO…INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $421,673 · OtherINNOVATIO…Equalize Health Formerly D-Rev: $264,868 · OtherEqualize …GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $217,018 · OtherGEORGETOW…CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $336,334 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $244,983 · Environment
International$7,369,334Health$4,646,727Human Services$3,861,864Food & Nutrition$690,720Community Improvement$688,429Other$1,575,564Environment$581,317

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 budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $3,861,864 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $1,685,299 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,405,534 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC: $1,278,111 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $970,420 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $937,424 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $813,727 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $769,917 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $768,770 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION: $756,029 over 5y, 20% of budgetLIVING GOODS: $710,121 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $709,781 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION: $690,720 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $672,005 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $602,052 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW INCENTIVES: $577,781 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetEVERGREEN COOPERATIVE CORPORATION: $529,113 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $421,673 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $336,334 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEqualize Health Formerly D-Rev: $264,868 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $244,983 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $217,018 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE FOR THE WORLD INC: $159,316 over 1y, 35% of budgetNYAYA HEALTH: $31,095 over 1y, 0.9% 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 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 ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…First Dollar Foundati…Mulago FoundationThe Clear FundThe Ray and Tye Noord…Effective Ventures Fo…Good Ventures Foundat…Gates FoundationNetwork for GoodGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to The Life You Can Save?

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.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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