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Life Time Foundation Awards Over $1.5 Million in Grants in 2024 to Support Environmental- and Youth-Focused Initiatives Nationwide

Contributions Enhance Healthy Planet, Youth Movement, and Youth Nutrition Programs

CHANHASSEN, Minn. (Dec. 30, 2024) –The Life Time Foundation, the 501(c)(3) non-profit of Life Time (NYSE: LTH) dedicated to fostering a healthier planet and empowering healthy youth, distributed more than $1.5 million in grants to various organizations across the United States in 2024. These funds played a key role in supporting organizations that advance the Foundation's core initiatives: Healthy Planet, Youth Movement, and Youth Nutrition.

“We are grateful for the work of the Life Time Foundation, our donors, who continue to support our efforts, and the organizations we partnered with this year to further our shared goals that create a healthier future,” said Sarah Emola, Director of the Life Time Foundation. “We look forward to continuing our mission of inspiring a healthy planet and healthy people in 2025 and beyond.”

The Life Time Foundation supported the following initiatives, and more, in 2024:

Healthy Planet

  • During the Life Time Miami Marathon and Half weekend, the Foundation collaborated with Clean Miami beach, bringing volunteers and funding efforts to clean up Nikki Beach.
  • Provided a $1 million grant to American Forests to support restoration of the threatened whitebark pine in the western United States and its National Parks.
  • Partnered with SUGi to plant a pop-up microforest in North Minneapolis, creating a natural space that will provide shade and a safe play area for the local community.
  • Supported One Tree Planted’s initiative to reforest a western Oregon region devastated by wildfires in 2020 by committing to fund the planting of over 100,000 trees.
  • Provided $40,000 to the City Parks Foundation in New York, funding the planting of over 75,000 trees, plants and bulbs in New York City Parks.
  • In total, the Foundation funded the planting of more than 242,000 trees in 2024.

Youth Movement

  • Miami-Dade County school students completed the Final Mile of their 15-week marathon program by crossing the Finish Line in downtown Miami. With the support of the Life Time Foundation, the Life Time Kids Run Miami youth running program was offered free of charge to all Miami-Dade County Middle School students.
  • Supported youth cycling programs including the Youth Club of Trinidad’s Junior Bike Riders program, and NICA (National Interscholastic Cycling Association), helping under-represented young people learn and enjoy the life-long sport of cycling.
  • Provided a $60,000 grant to support the continued growth of the City Parks Foundation’s Track and Field programming, offering over 1,200 kids opportunities to participate in free organized sports and a family adventure race.
  • The Foundation provided more than $162,000 in support of nearly 20,000 kids engaging in safe, fun, enriching, and active initiatives in 2024.

Youth Nutrition

  • Gave a grant for the Miami Food Forests for Schools program, which leverages gardens and FoodForests as outdoor learning laboratories in Miami-Dade County’s public elementary schools instilling in children the desire to grow and eat nutritious food while learning to care for the environment
  • Provided nutrition curriculum to over 7,500 kids enrolled in the free City Parks Foundation programs in New York City.
  • Announced enhancements to Green Onion, its free digital resource designed to help schools identify ingredients of concern in the foods they serve to students and suggest healthier alternatives.

Collaborative Fundraising Events

  • Austin Head, a Life Time group fitness instructor based in New York, broke two world records in support of the Life Time Foundation. While completing the most lunges in one hour (2,852) and traveling the farthest distance by lunge in one hour (2.14 miles), he raised over $9,600 for the Life Time Foundation that was reinvested back into New York City communities through City Park Foundation programs.
  • Through Ride of A Life Time, a fundraising workout event supporting the Life Time Foundation and Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, more than 8,000 participants raised over $1 million for both causes.
  • In September, the Life Time Foundation partnered with Augie’s Quest for GO90 Augie’s Quest, a 90-minute workout fundraiser benefitting both organizations and raising more than $200,000 for both organizations.

To learn more about these and other initiatives supported by the Life Time Foundation, please visit www.ltfoundation.org.

About the Life Time Foundation

The Life Time Foundation, a 501c(3) nonprofit created by Life Time, Inc. (NYSE: LTH) is dedicated to inspiring Healthy People, a Healthy Planet, and a Healthy Way of Life. Through financial grants and direct action, we support Youth Nutrition by helping schools serve wholesome, nourishing, minimally processed food to students; Youth Movement by championing physical movement programs that get children active and excited to move for life; and a Healthy Planet by supporting forestation and conservation initiatives, so everyone can live healthy, happy lives. For more information or to make a tax-deductible donation, visit www.ltfoundation.org.