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Praise for Today Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$225k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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67% of Praise for Today Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to World Vision Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
7
’18
6
’19
7
’20
7
’21
2
’22
7
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Praise for Today Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsEducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$75k11%
FY20239$50k0%
FY20222$15k0%
FY20219$50k0%
FY20209$50k11%
FY20198$47k0%
FY201810$54k30%
FY201710$75kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.2MHuman Services$180kHousing & Shelter$90kReligion$87kCrime & Legal$28kYouth Development$15kRecreation & Sports$8kEducation$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Encompass Northwest$70,00070%
Snoqualmie Valley Alliance Church$65,0006n/a
Hopelink$45,00070%
Issaquah Community Services$45,00063%
Bread of Life Mission$45,00080%
Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc$23,00040%
Bible Study Fellowship$21,50070%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$10,00010%
Medical Teams International$4,50020%
The Bear Creek School$3,00020%
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All grantees of Praise for Today Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Encompass Northwest$70,00070%
Snoqualmie Valley Alliance Church$65,0006n/a
Hopelink$45,00070%
Issaquah Community Services$45,00063%
Bread of Life Mission$45,00080%
Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc$23,00040%
Bible Study Fellowship$21,50070%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)$10,00010%
Medical Teams International$4,50020%
The Bear Creek School$3,00020%
Rafiki Foundation Inc$1,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Praise for Today Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEncompass Northwest: $70,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHopelink: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIssaquah Community Services: $45,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBread of Life Mission: $45,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSammamish Bible Camp Association Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $21,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871): $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Teams International: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bear Creek School: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRafiki Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 FoundationWA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Praise for Today Foundation

How much does Praise for Today Foundation give?
Praise for Today Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Praise for Today Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (75%), Human Services (11%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are Praise for Today Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Encompass Northwest ($70k), Snoqualmie Valley Alliance Church ($65k), Hopelink ($45k).
Does Praise for Today Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Praise for Today Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Praise for Today Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Praise for Today Foundation based?
Praise for Today Foundation is based in WA.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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