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The Lifespace Foundation

The foundation's mission is to raise and invest funds to further the charitable purposes of lifespace communities, inc.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$8.6MHousing & Shelter$2.0MHuman Services$1.2M
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $3,355,542, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,365,998 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,010,456 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–50k2 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $406k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.9M
$121,960
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC$2,884,646
BARTON CREEK SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC$227,780
FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE OF MILL CREEK NFP$121,960
WESLEY COURT LLC$56,143
CRAIG AMARILLO LLC$32,807
MEADOW LAKE LLC$32,206
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $2.9M → 14%LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $3.0M → 5%LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $1.6M → 5%FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE OF MILL CREEK NFP: $122k → 14%LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $443k → 5%WESLEY COURT LLC: $56k → 14%CRAIG AMARILLO LLC: $33k → 14%MEADOW LAKE LLC: $32k → 14%LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $222k → 5%LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $177k → 5%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 5 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$11M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LC
    LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +61%
  • BC
    BARTON CREEK SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $859k · revenue +37%
  • TC
    TARRANT COUNTY SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $709k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • FV
    FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE OF MILL CREEK NFP
    one grant, 2024 · $122k · revenue 0%
  • WC
    WESLEY COURT LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $56k
  • CA
    CRAIG AMARILLO LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $33k
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
Duncaster Incorporated

Duncaster's mission is to enrich the lives of those we serve through excellence in senior living, life enhancement activities, and person-centered care.

Human Services
2
Christian Care Retirement Apartments Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve

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3
Christian Care Mesa Ii Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
4
Christian Care Surprise Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Housing & Shelter
5
Christian Care Mesa Inc

Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.

Human Services
6
Columbia Vantage House Corporation

To enhance the lives of our residents by offering a lifetime of services and enriching wellness, intellectual, and social growth opportunities within fiscally responsible parameters.

Human Services
7
Eastside Retirement Association

Emerald heights is a not-for-profit non-denominational life plan retirement community providing a continuum of living accommodations, supportive services, and health care for residents 55 years of age and older. as a life plan retirement…

Human Services
8
Lifecare Inc

To establish, operate and maintain retirement facilities for the elderly in michigan.

Human Services
9
Wesley Community Services Inc

Wesley community services, inc. is focused on providing services to older adults and those of low income. it was established in 2005 as a faith-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to people of all faiths in a…

Human Services
10
Kendal At Ithaca Inc

Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.

Human Services
11
Wesley Retirement Services Inc

Guided by christian compassion, wesleylife supports the independence, health, and well-being of older adults wherever they call home. as a non-profit organization, we understand our responsibility and obligation to operate with…

Human Services
12
The Village At Mercy Creek

The Mission of The Villas at Mercy Creek is to Celebrate Life and Serve with Joy.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespace Communities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Deerfield Retirement Community Inc. 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

10 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $8,313,680 · Human ServicesLIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC+4 more: $243,116 · Human ServicesBARTON CREEK SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC: $858,696 · Housing & ShelterBARTON CREEK SE…TARRANT COUNTY SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC: $708,577 · Housing & ShelterTARRANT COUNTY …NORTHWEST SENIOR HOUSING CORPORATION: $673,281 · OtherNORTHWEST S…DEERFIELD RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $498,241 · OtherDEERFIELD R…IMMANUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $469,624 · Health
Human Services$8,556,796Housing & Shelter$1,567,273Other$1,171,522Health$469,624

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFESPACE COMMUNITIES INC: $8,313,680 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetBARTON CREEK SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC: $858,696 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTARRANT COUNTY SENIOR LIVING CENTER INC: $708,577 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWEST SENIOR HOUSING CORPORATION: $673,281 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDEERFIELD RETIREMENT COMMUNITY INC: $498,241 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDSHIP VILLAGE OF MILL CREEK NFP: $121,960 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESLEY COURT LLC: $56,143 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRAIG AMARILLO LLC: $32,807 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEADOW LAKE LLC: $32,206 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 10 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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