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The Lifeshare Foundation at a glance

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The Lifeshare Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2017
16
Grants FY2017
3
States reached
$768k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$100,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL$767,925
CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND$600,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JAC$250,000
MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE$240,000
MS CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES$200,000
UMMC THE CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDRENS OF$200,000
JUVENILE RESEARCH DIABETES FOUNDAT$101,534
MTK FOUNDATION$100,000
CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS$100,000
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN$50,000
SUNNYBROOK CHILDRENS' HOME$50,000
MS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$4,430
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF MS$3,500
FRENCH CAMP ACADEMY$1,500
CASA MS$1,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%SUNNYBROOK CHILDRENS' HOME: $50k → 11%PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 19%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.
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.
03Its 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
Mississippi Children's Home Services Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
3
Cares Center Inc

To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measurable, and effective behavioral health, education, and social services.

Education
4
Children's Foundation of Mississippi

To improve the well-being of mississippi's children through the design, promotion and improvement of systems and services.

Youth Development
5
The Mississippi Center for Medically Fragile Children Inc

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…

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6
Marshall Christian Academy Inc

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.

Education
7
Children's House Montessori School Inc

Preschool, kindergarten, and childcare for enrolled students only

Education
8
United Methodist Children's Home

Serving abused, neglected and abandoned children through group homes and foster care; facilitating adoptions; and family preservation.

Human Services
9
Mississippi Charter Schools Association

The mississippi charter schools association drives the development and growth of high-quality public charter schools through school support, advocacy, and outreach.

Education
10
Marjorie Williams Academy Incorporated

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.

Education
11
Maple Manor Christian Home Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Ni Magnuson Christian School

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Children's Home Society; 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.
03the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND: $600,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S CANCER FUNDUMMC THE CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDRENS OF: $200,000 · OtherUMMC THE CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDRENS OFMS CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICES: $200,000 · OtherMS CHILDREN'S HOME SERVICESJUVENILE RESEARCH DIABETES FOUNDAT: $101,534 · OtherJUVENILE RESEARCH DIABETES FOUNDATMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $100,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY+3 more: $9,430 · OtherMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $767,925 · HealthMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOLMississippi College: $240,000 · EducationMississippi Co…MTK FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationMTK FOUNDATION+1 more: $1,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human Services
Other$1,210,964Health$767,925Education$341,500Philanthropy$250,000Human Services$101,500

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 budgetMAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL: $767,925 over 1y, 29% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $250,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMississippi College: $240,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRENCH CAMP ACADEMY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 F…Ergon Foundation IncThe Gertrude C Ford F…Selby and Richard McR…Community Foundation …Raymond James Charita…Wesley a Caldwell Fou…Howard & Mary Eliza M…Feild Co-Operative As…Walker FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lifeshare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lifeshare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–20%
    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.

    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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