· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD VISION | $150,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| ENCOMPASS | $10,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MISSION | $10,000 |
| SNOQUALMIE VALLEY ALLIANCE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SAMBICA | $10,000 |
| ISSAQUAH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| HOPELINK | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ENENCOMPASS NORTHWEST7× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +151%
- HHOPELINK7× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +74%
- BOBREAD OF LIFE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871)graduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +49%
- SVSUN VALLEY (WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY) YMCAone grant, 2018 · $10k
- RFRAFIKI FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK ↗
- Who funds ISSAQUAH COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Sammamish Bible Camp Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE BEAR CREEK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAFIKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Praise for Today Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Praise for Today Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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