About Life You Can Save
Our mission is to lift people out of poverty by changing the way people think about and donate to charity.
Focus Areas
Poverty alleviationGlobal health and developmentEducationHealth (malaria, diarrheal disease, pneumonia, HIV/AIDS, maternal-child care)Women and girls' issuesCash transfers / economic opportunity
Funding Style
program/project supportrestricted program fundingdirect service implementationshort-term/project-specific funding
About Life You Can Save
The Life You Can Save concentrates its grantmaking on evidence-backed charities that address poverty through health, education, and living standards, with program support going to large, recurring grantees. In the latest grant list, the biggest award was $2,914,985 to GiveDirectly in New York, followed by $434,641 to Evidence Action in Washington, DC and $426,968 to the Against Malaria Foundation in Kansas City, MO. Those grants fit a pattern of supporting direct-service organizations working on extreme poverty and major health burdens such as malaria, diarrheal disease, and maternal-child care. The organization also backs charities that tackle specific barriers to well-being. Fistula Foundation received $377,181 for program support in 2025, while Project Healthy Children received $341,898. Other named recipients include Seva Foundation, Living Goods, Helen Keller International, One Acre Fund, Village Enterprise, and Malaria Consortium. The funder’s active portfolios include education, rapid humanitarian response, women and girls, health, and quality of life, alongside an operations fund that supports the organization’s research and evaluation work. Its stated mission is to lift people out of poverty by changing the way people think about and donate to charity.
What Life You Can Save Funds
Health is one of the clearest themes in the recent grants list. The Life You Can Save gave $434,641 to Evidence Action for program support and $426,968 to the Against Malaria Foundation, also for program support. It also supported Seva Foundation with $236,463 and Living Goods with $194,813, both in 2025, reinforcing a focus on proven interventions rather than one-off projects. Education appears through a dedicated pooled fund focused on children and adolescents living in extreme poverty, with emphasis on access, participation, literacy, numeracy, life skills, and girls’ matriculation. Beyond that, the organization’s active portfolio includes a Women and Girls Fund centered on gender equality, safety, inclusion, maternal healthcare, and family planning. The broader Maximize Your Impact Fund and Quality of Life Fund point to an interest in evidence-driven charities addressing living standards and day-to-day well-being.
How Life You Can Save Gives
Typical grant size sits in the low six figures: p25 is $104,954, median is $153,607, and p75 is $190,804. The recent list shows repeated support to the same organizations across multiple years, including GiveDirectly, Fistula Foundation, Against Malaria Foundation, Project Healthy Children, Helen Keller International, Living Goods, Village Enterprise, Malaria Consortium, and Population Services International. That pattern suggests ongoing, short-term program funding rather than one-time awards. The funder is a pure DAF provider, and the listed grants are program support rather than unrestricted institutional support. Unsolicited applications are not part of the active fund programs described.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6.1M
Total Assets
$5.1M
Total Revenue
$10.9M
Total Expenses
$11.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $105K and $191K, with a median of $154K.
25th Percentile
$105K
Median
$154K
75th Percentile
$191K
Geographic Reach
National8 states funded
About 5% of grants go to recipients in CA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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