Rhode Island · Nonprofit
LIFESPAN FOUNDATION
LIFESPAN FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,715 to it, the largest being THE FEIBELMAN FOUNDATION ($600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $866k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Lifespan Foundation does
Mission
BUHF operates exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In fiscal year 2025, BUHF transferred $1,605,726 to Rhode Island Hospital (RIH). $1,250,000 was provided to provide increased opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) to have greater access to employment, job training, healthcare professional certification, advanced education, and leadership development. Additionally, $178,906 was transferred to be used for cancer support, and well as support various patient care enhancement projects and research in the Brown University Health Cancer Institute and $98,264 was provided to RIH to support cardiology and cardiac surgery.
$1,605,726 spentof which $1,605,726 as grants92% of program spendingBUHF and Brown have an agreement pursuant to which each entity maintains an endowment fund representing 50% of an endowment gift, the income from which supports a diagnostic imaging shared chair. The agreement specifies a spending rate which is applied to the trailing three-year average fair value of the endowment fund to arrive at an amount used to support the named professorship. Payments distributing this amount, which are made by BUHF to Brown on a quarterly basis, totaled $99,979 in fiscal year 2025.
$99,979 spentof which $99,979 as grants6% of program spendingIn fiscal year 2025, BUHF transferred $33,608 to The Miriam Hospital to be used for cancer support, focusing on the area of pancreatic cancer.
$33,608 spentof which $33,608 as grants2% of program spendingDuring fiscal year 2025, BUH transferred $1,625 to Saint Anne's Hospital for philanthropic support to that organization.
$1,625 spentof which $1,625 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,740,938.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.8M to $17M (+193%).
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.
43% of LIFESPAN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $26k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Rhode Island Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LIFESPAN FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LIFESPAN FOUNDATION’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
LIFESPAN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
28% 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 LIFESPAN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 82% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of LIFESPAN FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of LIFESPAN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
LIFESPAN FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LIFESPAN FOUNDATION
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 40 related entities
- Alternative Living Concepts Inc · exempt
- Bayberry Courts Inc · exempt
- Bradley Hospital Foundation · exempt
- Brown Health Medical Group · exempt
- Brown Health Medical Group of Massachusetts Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIFESPAN FOUNDATION: 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 LIFESPAN FOUNDATION?
- LIFESPAN FOUNDATION (Rhode Island) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $865,715 to it, the largest being THE FEIBELMAN FOUNDATION ($600,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIFESPAN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $865,715 in grants to LIFESPAN FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIFESPAN FOUNDATION?
- THE FEIBELMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIFESPAN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 12 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