· Private foundation
The Lifeshare Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $767,925 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND | $600,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JAC | $250,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE | $240,000 |
| UMMC THE CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDRENS OF | $200,000 |
| MS CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES | $200,000 |
| JUVENILE RESEARCH DIABETES FOUNDAT | $101,534 |
| MTK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS | $100,000 |
| SUNNYBROOK CHILDRENS' HOME | $50,000 |
| PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| MS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $4,430 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF MS | $3,500 |
| FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESCUE ADOPTION | $1,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measurable, and effective behavioral health and social services by providing management services to mississippi children's home society and cares…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measurable, and effective behavioral health, education, and social services.
To improve the well-being of mississippi's children through the design, promotion and improvement of systems and services.
To provide the first pediatric skilled nursing facility in the state of mississippi that not only helps children and families transition from the hospital back to their homes, but also provides long-term care for some of our state's most…
The mission of the organization is to partner with christian parents, to provide quality christian education, and to prepare students for a lifetime of fruitful christian service.
Preschool, kindergarten, and childcare for enrolled students only
Serving abused, neglected and abandoned children through group homes and foster care; facilitating adoptions; and family preservation.
The mississippi charter schools association drives the development and growth of high-quality public charter schools through school support, advocacy, and outreach.
The academy is a charter school operating under north carolina governmental regulations. the students are residents of the childrens home where the campus is located.
Nursing home to provide medical care in addition to room and board; provide physical property for operations of children home to care for displaced and at-risk children.
We are a christ-centered, academically excellent, educational community that develops the whole child - heart, soul, mind, and body. we are a k-8 private christian school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Children's Home Society and the most unlike its peers is Mtk Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MTK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CASA MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY ↗
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: 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
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 Lifeshare Foundation 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.
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.