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Encourage & Impact Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $532k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTA MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI | $100,000 |
| OPERATION MOBILIZATION | $100,000 |
| AGROS INTERNATIONAL | $75,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $54,900 |
| SEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $52,500 |
| CRISTA MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES | $40,000 |
| WOMENS ACCESSIBLE MEDICAL SERVICES PS | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| DISCOVERY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| TELEIOS | $25,000 |
| LIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA | $20,000 |
| THE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $14,750 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Encourage & Impact Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DDDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +13%
- LCLIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +55%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SAST ANTHONY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $150k
- CHCraig Hospital Foundationone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +23%
- MCMOSAIC COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $76k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (LMHMC) was founded in 1922 and is a community hospital in Gresham, Oregon with 115 licensed beds. LMHMC offers a wide range of services including family birth, diagnostic services, cancer treatment,…
Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.
Christian Health Care Center is a skilled nursing facility which provides housing services designed to meet the needs of older residents of Lynden Washington regardless of their ability to pay.
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center (LGSHMC), founded in 1875 is one of the earliest hospitals in the Pacific Northwest. LGSHMC provides acute and tertiary care in Portland, OR with 539 licensed beds. LGSHMC provides a…
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital (LSCH), established in 2005, provides acute and critical care in Vancouver, with 165 licensed beds. LSCH operates adult, pediatric, and OB/GYN hospitalist programs, as well as four primary care physician…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
The mission of the University of Western States is to advance the science and art of integrated health care through excellence in education and patient care.
Christ House provides 24-hour comprehensive and compassionate care for people experiencing homelessness with acute medical needs in the District of Columbia and offers assistance in addressing critical issues to help break the cycle of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Nightwatch Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Whidbey Homeless Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTA Ministries ↗
- Who funds Leadership Development DBA Centered ↗
- Who funds DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AGROS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA ↗
- Who funds TELEIOS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Women's Accessible Medical Services PS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska ↗
- Who funds CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Urban Impact ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND OF SOUTH WHIDBEY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WHIDBEY GOOD CHEER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Whidbey Community Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Gesner Johnson Foundation · Stewardship Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Servant Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Albertsons Companies Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Encourage & Impact Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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