· Private foundation
Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Point Loma Nazarene University | $49,522 |
| Payson Christian Clinic | $35,000 |
| Graceworks Global | $35,000 |
| Time Out Inc | $34,646 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Natl Chrisian Charitable Foundation | $29,930 |
| Smile Train | $29,930 |
| Charity Global Inc | $25,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| One International | $15,358 |
| Payson Senior Center | $10,106 |
| Save the Family | $10,058 |
| Life More Abundantly Resource Cente | $10,000 |
| Likewise Worship Care | $10,000 |
| International Living Streams | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2025 · $275k · revenue +27%
- AOAS OUR OWN NFP5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +11%
- PCPAYSON CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $177k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2021 · $50k
- ABArizona Bible Collegeone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -74%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Spokens Mission is Deliver Truth...Where Written Words Cant Go. Most missiologists will agree that 2/3 of the world is populated with oral learners. Among this population, a person learns best by listening and interacting with stories,…
To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The mission of Global Trust Partners is empowering national workers and building trust in churches and ministries to grow local generous giving to Gods work.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Likewise Ministry exists to train Christians in the disciple-making strategy of Jesus. Through an in-depth study of the life of Christ, ongoing coaching, and on-location training experiences, learners are equipped to apply Jesus' model to…
How this is measured
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds PAYSON CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE WORKS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
- Who funds PAYSON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN MOORE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNAUSS HOMESTEAD PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Likewise Worship Inc ↗
- Who funds Arizona Bible College ↗
- Who funds LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds International Living Streams ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ARIZONA INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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