Restoring Lifeways
Kansas City, MO · EIN 47-4750095. Reported 67 grants totalling $3,682,051 to 62 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Restoring Lifeways, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 62 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 9% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $55,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $620,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahimsa Collective | Oakland, CA | $770,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| For Goodness Sake Inc | Wolcott, CT | $550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pajaro Valley Ohlone Indian Council | Watsonville, CA | $180,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Milpa | Salinas, CA | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Star Nation Inc | Red Bank, NJ | $109,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kee Cha-E-Nar Corporation | Klamath, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Transitioning Offenders Program | Shelton, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Good Work Institute Inc | Kingston, NY | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cheyenne Elders Council Inc | Calumet, OK | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Equity and Transformation | Berwyn, IL | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Interoots Initiative | Denver, CO | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sovereign Earthworks | Washington, DC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wabanaki Cultural Preservation Coalition | Passadumkeag, ME | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Young of Heart Workshop | Honolulu, HI | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Communities for Healing and Justice Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native American Church of Southern Arizona Inc | Tucson, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Restorative Project | Lake Hughes, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The New Shul | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center of Southwest Culture Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hawaii Friends of Restorative Justice | Honolulu, HI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Xkkf | Hydaburg, AK | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Jose Parks Foundation | San Jose, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tiny Seed Project Inc | Vernon, VT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Npt Charitable Asset Tr | Jenkintown, PA | $25,035 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A New Way of Life Reentry Project | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| B U I L D Incorporated | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barrios Unidos | Chimayo, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cihuapahtli Matriarch Council Inc | Edison, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Deep Medicine Circle | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Excellence and Advancement Foundation | Pflugerville, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gathering for Justice Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grinding Stone Collective Inc | Glendale, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healing and Reconciliation Institute | King City, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Joy As Resistance | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Movement Alliance Project | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native Conservancy | Cordova, AK | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Semillas Y Raices | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Regenerative Ecological Education & Enterprise Development | Canaan, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Game Changing Men Inc | Atlanta, GA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeastern Illinois University Foundation | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ramapough Culture and Land Foundation Inc | Newton, NJ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unify the World | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United for a Fair Economy Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unity Circles | Roslindale, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Confederation of Taino Peopl | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vernon Avenue Project Inc | Jamaica, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence | Hayward, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Star Inc | West Point, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healing Together | Oakland, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Owl Bonnet Cultural Preservation Organization | Buffalo, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pawnee Yellow Horse Chapter Native | Pawnee, OK | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tariq Khamisa Foundation | Escondido, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wicahpi Koyaka Tiospaye | Wanblee, SD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Mobilizing Network | Washington, DC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| All Nations Gathering Center | Martin, SD | $10,016 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| La Raza Services Inc | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Restorative Media Inc | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Juustice Washington | Ferndale, WA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lewis and Clark College | Portland, OR | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
5 of 62 (8%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Ahimsa Collective
Passthrough for Administrative Services - Transitioning Offenders Program
Regrant for Indigenous Regeneration Center
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 49 of 62 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 53 | $3,103,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $579,051 | $27,517 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
40% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Restoring Lifeways's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2 Nw 79TH St, Kansas City, MO, 64118.
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