New York · Nonprofit
WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC
WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,161,260 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,431,055). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programWORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$139M
Recipients
107
Contributions on record
$87M
Donors on record
8
Payments out are 1.59x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Nina Jean Obel Charitable Trustshared funders
- Waterstone Support Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Brad Brock Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $4.2M.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WORD OF LIFE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $67k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Nina Jean Obel Charitable Trustshared fundersTX · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Waterstone Support Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brad Brock Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kenneth and Alice Martin Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bowanabee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterstone Supporting Organization Trust 1portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hermanson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Compassion Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dlp Positive Returns Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Touchstone Caresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Psalms Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Word of Life Fellowship Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORD OF LIFE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC?
- WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $87,161,260 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($66,431,055). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $87,161,260 in grants to WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORD OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $66,431,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORD OF LIFE 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing