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Emissaries of Divine Light Northwest

Public charity engaged in philanthropy to support other 501c3 organizations that share a similar mission/purpose while serving the needs of humanity

$376k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2023.

Health$115kHuman Services$100kArts & Culture$95kFood & Nutrition$95kYouth Development$95kEnvironment$15k
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $330,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $376,023 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,023 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$70,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$737k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROW GOOD$70,000
SPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATIO$70,000
HUMAN PRISON HOSPICE PROJE$70,000
THE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PROJ$70,000
SOUL RIVER INC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HUMAN PRISON HOSPICE PROJE: $70k → 8%GROW GOOD: $70k → 14%COMMONWEAL: $30k → 8%GROW GOOD INC: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$400k · 4 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$400k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PROJECT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $115k · revenue +163%
  • GI
    GROWGOOD INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $95k · revenue +13%
  • SA
    SPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $95k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • COMMONWEAL
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +12%
  • SE
    SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROWGOOD INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesGROWGOOD INCGIRLVENTURES: $70,000 · Human ServicesGIRLVENTURESCOMMONWEAL: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEALSOUL RIVER INC: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUL RIVER INCSPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATIONTHE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PROJECT: $115,000 · HealthTHE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PRO…SACRED EARTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Environment
Human Services$195,000Youth Development$190,000Health$115,000Environment$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PEACEFUL PRESENCE PROJECT: $115,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSOUL RIVER INC: $95,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetGROWGOOD INC: $95,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetSPIRIT AWAKENING FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetGIRLVENTURES: $70,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSACRED EARTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Emissaries of Divine Light Northwest funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emissaries of Divine Light Northwest. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Peaceful Presence Project: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Emissaries of Divine Light Northwest through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $411k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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