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Partners for Sacred Places Inc

Support for care and full use of older religious properties as centers of congregational life and community service.

$175k
Granted FY2020
5
Itemized grants FY2020
5
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$97k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$22,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$24,673
Organizations funded a year
5 to 14
FY2019 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$19M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Partners for Sacred Places Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20205$97k100%
FY201914$224kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2020.

Religion$247kArts & Culture$73k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Marys Church Hamilton Village$50,0001n/a
Life Christ Ministries$24,6731n/a
Faith Immanuel Lutheran Church$24,5391n/a
First United Methodist Church of Germantown$22,5001n/a
Grace Epiphany Church$22,5001n/a
First Presbyterian Church in Germantown$22,5001n/a
Swedish Zion$17,5931n/a
Unitarian Society of Germantown$15,0001n/a
Northeastern North Dakota Heritage Association$13,000127%
Our Savior's Lutheran$13,0001n/a
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All grantees of Partners for Sacred Places Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Marys Church Hamilton Village$50,0001n/a
Life Christ Ministries$24,6731n/a
Faith Immanuel Lutheran Church$24,5391n/a
First United Methodist Church of Germantown$22,5001n/a
Grace Epiphany Church$22,5001n/a
First Presbyterian Church in Germantown$22,5001n/a
Swedish Zion$17,5931n/a
Unitarian Society of Germantown$15,0001n/a
Northeastern North Dakota Heritage Association$13,000127%
Our Savior's Lutheran$13,0001n/a
Nora UU$13,0001n/a
Trondhjem Community Preservation Society$13,0001n/a
Dalesburg Lutheran Church$13,0001n/a
Luther Memorial Church$13,0001n/a
Vidalin Cemetery Association$12,5001n/a
St Luke's Episcopal School$10,0001n/a
Bethlehem Lutheran Church$7,6501n/a
Augustana Lutheran Church$6,7501n/a
Valley Grove Preservation Society$6,1501n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Partners for Sacred Places Inc?

Find your warmest path to Partners for Sacred Places Inc 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.

About Partners for Sacred Places Inc

How much does Partners for Sacred Places Inc give?
Partners for Sacred Places Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $96,712, out of $175,211 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
What does Partners for Sacred Places Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (77%), Arts & Culture (23%).
Who are Partners for Sacred Places Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2020: St Marys Church Hamilton Village ($50k), Life Christ Ministries ($25k), Faith Immanuel Lutheran Church ($25k).
Does Partners for Sacred Places Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Partners for Sacred Places Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Partners for Sacred Places Inc based?
Partners for Sacred Places Inc is based in PA.

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 19 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $520k 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 FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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