· Private foundation
The Lift Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Huntsman Mental Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| Academy for Creating Enterprise | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 24% of The Lift Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in UT; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +140% since the first grant, against +69% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAcademy for Creating Enterprise4× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +62%
- OSORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION4× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +243%
- NNNAMI National2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +543%
Funded once
- FEFOUNDATION ESCALERA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +69%
- PFPULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
Through education, support, and advocacy, nami minnesota champions justice, dignity, and respect for all individuals and families affected by mental illnesses. to serve that mission, nami minnesota works with individuals with mental…
NAMI California is a Grass Roots Organization of Families and Individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness. We advocate for lives of quality and respect, without discrimination and stigma, for all constituents. We…
Nami westside los angeles is a grass roots organization of families and individuals whose lives have been affected by serious mental illness. we provide advocacy, education, and support for those with mental illness and their families in…
Esperanza united's mission is to mobilize latinas and latino communities to end domestic violence.
Preeclampsia foundation: 2025 impact statement saving lives and improving outcomes for mothers and babies in 2025, the preeclampsia foundation continued its unwavering mission to reduce maternal and infant illness and death due to…
End violence against women international (evawi) inspires and educates those who respond to gender-based violence, equipping them with the knowledge and tools they need to support victims and hold perpetrators accountable. we promote…
The policy center is improving maternal mental health outcomes through closing gaps in care delivery, including improving detection and access to evidence-based and informed clinical and community-based care. the policy center has been…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds WOMEN TO WOMEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION ESCALERA INC ↗
- Who funds PULMONARY FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lift Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lift Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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