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The Lifeshare Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2017
16
Grants FY2017
15
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$767,925
States reached, FY2017
3
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Magnolia Speech School$767,925129%
Mississippi College$240,00010%
Mississippi Children's Home Society$100,00011%
Mtk Foundation$100,0001n/a
Sunnybrook Children's Home Inc$50,00014%
Palmer Home for Children$50,00011%
Casa Mississippi Inc$1,5001n/a
French Camp Academy$1,50010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

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.

Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender TrusteeMS17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc · Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Wesley a Caldwell Foundation Inc · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · Walker Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Lifeshare Foundation

How much does The Lifeshare Foundation give?
The Lifeshare Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $2,671,889 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does The Lifeshare Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Health (59%), Human Services (19%), Education (13%).
Who are The Lifeshare Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Magnolia Speech School ($768k), Mississippi College ($240k), Mississippi Children's Home Society ($100k).
Does The Lifeshare Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lifeshare Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee, Ergon Foundation Inc, The Gertrude C Ford Foundation Inc.
Where is The Lifeshare Foundation based?
The Lifeshare Foundation is based in MS.

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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2018) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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