· Private foundation
Rae of Hope 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAITH AID | $76,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN DISTRICT LUTHERAN CHURCH - MISSOURI SYNOD | $10,800 |
| FREDERICKSBURG CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| YOUTH FOR TOMORROW | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 19 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC4× · 2017–2020 · $300k · revenue +33%
- FAFaith Aid4× · 2022–2025 · $176k · revenue +359%
- YFYOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- CICORUS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue ×19
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA CHESAPEAKEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FEFIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Corus solutions is a center where innovative public health and allied programs can be conceived, tested and implemented on behalf of ima world health. ima innovations will pursue creative projects that expand and refine the agency's public…
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.
Post secondary education - concordia university inc. is a lutheran higher education community committed to helping students develop in mind, body, and spirit for service to christ in the church and the world.
The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…
Concordia is a christian university preparing leaders for the transformation of society. on february 7, 2020 the university board of regents voted to close the university and cease academic operations in 2020. academic operations ceased in…
A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…
The mission of Luther Rice College & Seminary is to serve the church and community by providing biblically based on-campus and distance education to Christian men and women for ministry and the marketplace with an end to granting…
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 220 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds CORUS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Aid ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR TOMORROW-NEW LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SCAN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICKSBURG CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC LUTHERANS IN MISSION 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: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rae of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rae of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
How this is measured
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