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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.

$805k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$850kReligion$811kHuman Services$569kHealth$459kInternational$225kCivil Rights$225kCommunity Improvement$140kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $222k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $532k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$150k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION MOBILIZATION$100,000
CRISTA MINISTRIES$100,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI$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
DISCOVERY INSTITUTE$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
WOMENS ACCESSIBLE MEDICAL SERVICES PS$25,000
TELEIOS$25,000
LIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA$20,000
THE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY$15,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$14,750
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES (DADS): $40k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 12%DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES: $40k → 9%RYANS HOUSE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 7%DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES: $40k → 9%RYANS HOUSE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 7%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $12k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $10k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $8k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $8k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
IA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MS
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of Encourage & Impact Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Encourage & Impact Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 26 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationReligionInternationalOther
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

  • DD
    DADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +13%
  • LC
    LIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +55%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SA
    ST ANTHONY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • CH
    Craig Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +90%
  • MC
    MOSAIC COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $76k
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

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.

1
Lutheran Community Services Northwest

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.

Human Services
2
Washington Prayer Coalition

to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,

Religion
3
Northeastern Seminary

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…

Education
4
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center

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,…

Health
5
Horizon House

Purposeful living in a diverse community. using the power of resident driven community to enhance wellbeing.

Human Services
6
Christian Health Care Center

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.

Health
7
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center

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…

Health
8
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital

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…

Health
9
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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10
Regent University

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.

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11
University of Western States

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.

Health
12
Christ House

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Nightwatch Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
21/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $425,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYOPERATION MOBILIZATION: $225,000 · OtherOPERATION MOBILIZATIONST ANTHONY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherST ANTHONY HEALTH FOUNDATIONLeadership Development DBA Centered: $125,000 · OtherLeadership Development DBA CenteredSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $118,500 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONSEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $83,210 · OtherSEATTLE CHILDRENS HOSPITALMOSAIC COMMUNITY CHURCH: $76,000 · OtherTELEIOS: $70,000 · OtherCRISTA MINISTRIES - WORLD CONCERN World Concern D: $50,000 · Other+19 more: $167,500 · Other+19 moreNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE F…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MI…CRISTA Ministries: $531,444 · ReligionCRISTA Ministries+1 more: $10,000 · ReligionMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation: $100,000 · HealthWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS: $25,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $14,800 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES: $120,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $39,750 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $32,000 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $17,500 · Human Services+2 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $105,000 · InternationalLIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA: $70,000 · InternationalHENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · Arts & CultureWHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,490,210Philanthropy$850,000Religion$541,444Health$240,300Human Services$217,250International$175,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC: $750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Development DBA Centered: $125,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetDADS DIVINE ALTERNATIVES FOR DADS SERVICES: $120,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetAGROS INTERNATIONAL: $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIFE CENTER ETHIOPIA: $70,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTELEIOS: $70,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $39,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY DISTRICT SERVICE LEAGUE: $32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY HOMELESS COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHENRI NOUWEN SOCIETY: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEATTLE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska: $14,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHELPING HAND OF SOUTH WHIDBEY: $4,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS: $4,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH WHIDBEY GOOD CHEER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN'S HOUSE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUB - YOUTH CENTRAL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetReadiness To Learn: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Whidbey Community Fou…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Gesner Johnson Founda…Stewardship FoundationLucky Seven FoundationServant FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…The Signatry Charitab…The Albertsons Compan…
Seattle FoundationWA32.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Encourage & Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Encourage & Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Encourage & Impact Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Encourage & Impact Foundation 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 49 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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