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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 64-0811138

Better Life Foundation

A private foundation in Jackson, MS. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 4 grants and $62,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Vaughan W McRae
1515 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39202
(601) 944-0200
Form and materials
None
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
None

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $62,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $928,709

  • Tax year 2024

    $35,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $740,052

  • Tax year 2023

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $486,327

  • Tax year 2022

    $25,500

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $299,127

  • Tax year 2021

    $25,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $301,856

  • Tax year 2020

    $20,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $303,522

  • Tax year 2019

    $10,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $324,072

  • Tax year 2018

    $56,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $317,270

Grants paid in 2025

4 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Galloway United MethodistJackson, MS

    To support the programs of the organization

    $30,000
  2. The University of the SouthSewanee, TN

    To support the programs of the organization

    $15,000
  3. St Andrew's Episcopal SchoolRidgeland, MS

    To support the programs of the organization

    $12,000
  4. Community SchoolSt Louis, ME

    To support the programs of the organization

    $5,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education1 grant $15,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Mississippi2 grants $42,000
  2. Tennessee1 grant $15,000
  3. Maine1 grant $5,000

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Vaughan W McRaePRESIDENT Hours 0Pay $0
  • Nora Frances McRaeDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0
  • Douglas Vaughan McRaeDIRECTOR Hours 0Pay $0

The return

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