Funding search · EIN 462100400 · Novato, CA
The Life You Can Save
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 62
- grants reported
- $12.9M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $138,953
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Funding pattern
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Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- Give Directly2 grants · $3.2M
- Against Malaria Foundation2 grants · $753,159
- Fistula Foundation2 grants · $718,846
- Project Healthy Children2 grants · $634,854
- Evidence Action2 grants · $562,708
- Helen Keller International2 grants · $426,047
- Evergreen Collaborative2 grants · $397,474
- Seva Foundation2 grants · $373,018
- Living Goods2 grants · $367,678
- Malaria Consortium2 grants · $323,427
Giving over time
Grant history
All 62 reported grants, largest first.
- $2.9M
Give Directly · New York, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $434,641
Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
- $426,968
Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Program Support
- $377,181
Fistula Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $341,898
Project Healthy Children · Westborough, MA · 2024
Program Support
- $341,665
Fistula Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2023
- $326,191
Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2023
- $316,167
Evergreen Collaborative · Seattle, WA · 2023
- $292,956
Project Healthy Children · Westborough, MA · 2023
- $288,275
Give Directly · New York, NY · 2023
- $249,842
Village Enterprise · San Carlos, CA · 2022
- $245,329
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2023
- $236,463
Seva Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $226,266
Fistula Foundation · San Jose, CA · 2022
- $206,808
Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2022
- $200,659
The Gain · Washington, DC · 2023
- $194,813
Living Goods · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $191,759
Give Directly · New York, NY · 2022
- $187,939
One Acre Fund · Highland Park, IL · 2023
- $183,272
Village Enterprise · San Carlos, CA · 2023
- $182,076
Malaria Consortium · Raleigh, NC · 2023
- $180,718
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $176,497
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2023
- $172,865
Living Goods · San Francisco, CA · 2023
- $165,804
Gain · Washington, DC · 2022
- $164,905
Population Services Internati · Washington, DC · 2023
- $159,578
Fred Hollows Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
- $158,439
Malaria Consortium · Raleigh, NC · 2022
- $156,810
New Incentives · Walnut, CA · 2023
- $150,404
Population Services International · Washington, DC · 2022
- $141,351
Malaria Consortium · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Program Support
- $136,555
Seva Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023
- $135,418
Fred Hollows Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $132,792
One Acre Fund · Highland Park, IL · 2022
- $131,629
New Incentives · Walnut, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $128,067
Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2023
- $122,318
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2022
- $120,189
New Incentives · Walnut, CA · 2022
- $115,263
Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2022
- $112,738
Innovations for Poverty Actio · New York, NY · 2023
- $111,881
One Acre Fund · Highland Park, IL · 2024
Program Support
- $107,783
Living Goods · San Francisco, CA · 2022
- $105,702
Fred Hollows Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
- $104,719
Village Enterprise · San Carlos, CA · 2024
Program Support
- $104,705
Evergreen Collaborative · Seattle, WA · 2022
- $103,321
Project Healthy Children · Westborough, MA · 2022
- $102,097
Seva Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022
- $98,148
Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2023
- $96,607
Carbon 180 · Washington, DC · 2022
- $96,467
Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2022
- $91,007
Population Services Internati · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
- $89,263
Oxfam America · Boston, MA · 2024
Program Support
- $88,627
Carbon 180 · Washington, DC · 2023
- $81,307
Evergreen Collaborative · Seattle, WA · 2024
Program Support
- $78,171
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2022
- $77,745
Innovations for Poverty Action · New York, NY · 2022
- $64,483
Zusha · Washington, DC · 2022
- $56,231
Innovations for Poverty Actio · New York, NY · 2024
Program Support
- $35,424
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2024
Program Support
- $32,672
Carbon 180 · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
- $30,564
Equalize Health · San Francisco, CA · 2022
- $29,185
The Gain · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
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