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Lifebox Foundation Inc

Lifebox Foundation Inc (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,756,101 to it, the largest being SMILE TRAIN INC ($4,426,849). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$8.8M
Net assets
$1.8M
15/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Lifebox Foundation Inc does

Mission

To improve the safety of healthcare in low and middle-income countries.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To preserve and protect the health of patients worldwide by providing and assisting in the provision of equipment and support services in low-resource, lower-middle income and upper-middle income countries, as assessed by the World Bank and United Nations, at no or reduced cost; and to advance the education in healthcare of the general public and especially those in the medical or similar professions by the provision of education and training worldwide

    $242,958 spent$363,352 earned by the program
    8% of program spending
  2. To encourage and facilitate research of unsafe healthcare and patient safety.

    $2,765,230 spent
    92% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,008,188.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($612k) Expenses 100 ($646k) Net assets 100 ($415k)2018 Revenue 174 ($1.1M) Expenses 151 ($976k) Net assets 121 ($502k)2019 Revenue 158 ($967k) Expenses 158 ($1.0M) Net assets 108 ($450k)2020 Revenue 151 ($926k) Expenses 157 ($1.0M) Net assets 88 ($364k)2021 Revenue 414 ($2.5M) Expenses 337 ($2.2M) Net assets 173 ($720k)2022 Revenue 544 ($3.3M) Expenses 380 ($2.5M) Net assets 383 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 387 ($2.4M) Expenses 408 ($2.6M) Net assets 318 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 611 ($3.7M) Expenses 503 ($3.2M) Net assets 436 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 600 ($3.7M) Expenses 572 ($3.7M) Net assets 431 ($1.8M)
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Revenue (600)Expenses (572)Net assets (431)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+81%).

$996k
$912k
$714k
$525k
$1.2M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.3M
$2.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of Lifebox Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$34k
’17
$87k
’18
−$52k
’19
−$86k
’20
$355k
’21
$871k
’22
−$268k
’23
$489k
’24
−$20k
’25
4.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Kristina Torgeson

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed88891013101010
Joined·+0+1+1+1+3+1+0+2
No longer listed·01000402
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $55k → $1.4M.

11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Lifebox Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Lifebox Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Lifebox Foundation Inc.

51%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 80% · 2019 41% · 2020 55% · 2021 89% · 2022 77% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

24% of Lifebox Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

94% of Lifebox Foundation Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lifebox Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Lifebox Foundation Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 9%Fundraising 9%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lifebox Foundation Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lifebox Foundation Inc?
Lifebox Foundation Inc (New York) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,756,101 to it, the largest being SMILE TRAIN INC ($4,426,849). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lifebox Foundation Inc have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $8,756,101 in grants to Lifebox Foundation Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lifebox Foundation Inc?
SMILE TRAIN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,426,849 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lifebox Foundation Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing