How much does We Raise Foundation give?

We Raise Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $541,765 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does We Raise Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Youth Development (18%), Community Improvement (18%).

Who are We Raise Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: MAAFA Redemption Project ($703k), Center for Urban Education Ministries Inc ($349k), Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School Inc ($300k).

Does We Raise Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is We Raise Foundation based?

We Raise Foundation is based in IL.

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Illinois · Public charity

We Raise Foundation

Called by christ to serve others, WE RAISE FOUNDATION partners with christian organizations to support and develop sustainable programs that help people thrive.

$542k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2025: 6
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 34; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations We Raise Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	11	$536k	73%
FY2024	6	$566k	50%
FY2023	9	$330k	56%
FY2022	8	$344k	63%
FY2021	12	$661k	58%
FY2020	21	$725k	52%
FY2019	34	$725k	53%
FY2018	27	$459k	48%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$960kYouth Development$912kCommunity Improvement$879kEducation$661kCrime & Legal$463kHuman Services$459kEmployment$314kFood & Nutrition$185kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
MAAFA Redemption Project	$702,500	2	18%
Center for Urban Education Ministries Inc	$349,396	9	n/a
Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School Inc	$300,000	1	n/a
Harbor House Ministries Inc	$231,846	3	14%
The Community Warehouse Inc	$210,870	5	4%
Lutheran Foundation of St Louis Missouri	$200,000	1	n/a
Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc	$158,850	2	1%
Luther Place Memorial Church	$143,932	4	n/a
Lawndale Christian Legal Center	$113,239	4	3%
By The Hand Club For Kids	$110,289	4	1%

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All grantees of We Raise Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
MAAFA Redemption Project	$702,500	2	18%
Center for Urban Education Ministries Inc	$349,396	9	n/a
Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School Inc	$300,000	1	n/a
Harbor House Ministries Inc	$231,846	3	14%
The Community Warehouse Inc	$210,870	5	4%
Lutheran Foundation of St Louis Missouri	$200,000	1	n/a
Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc	$158,850	2	1%
Luther Place Memorial Church	$143,932	4	n/a
Lawndale Christian Legal Center	$113,239	4	3%
By The Hand Club For Kids	$110,289	4	1%
Kidz Express	$110,000	4	18%
Sunshine Gospel Ministries	$109,000	2	5%
Jumpstart	$100,599	1	n/a
Farming Hope	$100,000	1	8%
Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Benedict Center Inc	$90,000	3	4%
Children Rising Inc	$86,797	2	6%
Linc Nw	$84,305	3	20%
Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc	$83,500	3	0%
Canopy NWA	$82,500	3	5%
Elizabeth Home	$82,500	3	5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	$81,151	3	n/a
New Life Centers of Chicagoland	$76,389	1	1%
Bethel New Life Inc	$72,500	3	1%
Center for Women in Transition Dba Keyway Center for Diversion & Reentry	$53,264	1	2%
PRISM Economic Development Corporation	$51,089	2	11%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc	$50,000	3	0%
Lutheran Services in America Incorporated	$45,000	1	1%
Justdane	$45,000	2	1%
The Soulfisher Ministries	$42,743	1	5%
Table Grace Ministries	$38,402	2	8%
Cabrini Green Legal Aid	$37,500	2	n/a
St Louis University	$36,558	1	0%
Rise Academic Empowerment	$30,719	1	n/a
Metropolitan Family Services	$30,000	2	0%
St Leonard's Ministries	$27,500	1	1%
Lutheran Social Mission Society	$25,000	1	1%
Redeeme Lutheran Church	$21,551	1	n/a
Emmanuel Lutheran Church	$21,530	1	n/a
Lutheran Community Services Northwest	$21,250	2	0%
Mill Village Ministries	$20,845	2	1%
Restore Merced	$20,279	2	4%
Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry	$20,250	1	0%
Helpcare Clinic	$20,222	2	3%
Oak Knoll Lutheran Church	$19,986	1	n/a
Global Lutheran Outreach Inc	$18,494	2	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Colorado	$17,500	2	0%
River City Community Development Center	$15,885	2	2%
Marian Middle School	$15,000	1	0%
St Mary of Egypt Orthodox Church	$15,000	1	n/a
City Hope Tempe	$15,000	1	n/a
Christian Tech Center Ministries Inc	$15,000	1	11%
Good News Hawaii Church	$15,000	1	n/a
Inside Out Network Inc	$13,329	1	5%
Grip Outreach for Youth	$12,929	1	1%
Mirror Ministries	$12,247	1	4%
Akron Leadership Foundation	$11,711	1	n/a
Grapevine Relief and Community Exchange	$11,470	1	0%
Bridge Street House of Prayer	$11,050	1	2%
Straight Ahead Ministries INC	$10,820	1	1%
Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc	$10,750	1	0%
Rise University Preparatory	$10,720	1	n/a
Lawndale Christian Development Corp	$10,720	1	1%
Possibility Labs	$10,500	1	0%
Helping Hands Health and Wellness Center Inc	$10,470	1	3%
Bethlehem Lutheran Church	$10,250	1	n/a
Streetcode Academy	$10,229	1	0%
Spanish World Ministries Inc	$10,134	1	n/a
Bountiful Churchyards Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota	$10,000	1	0%
Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Council for Lutheran Campus Ministry at Syracuse New York Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Freedom Arts and Education Center	$10,000	1	5%
Rural Renewable Energy Alliance	$10,000	1	1%
HouseofHopeRefugeofLoveInc	$10,000	1	1%
Ao1 Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Dream Center Evansville	$10,000	1	0%
Franklin Avenue Mission Inc	$10,000	1	4%
General Council on Finance & Admins of the United	$10,000	1	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of the South Inc	$8,951	1	0%
Lutheran Church Charities Fund	$8,761	1	0%
Brookfield Lutheran Church	$8,672	1	n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church	$8,573	1	n/a
Resurrection Lutheran Church	$8,495	1	n/a
Zion Lutheran Church	$7,776	1	n/a
Impact 29 11	$7,000	1	n/a
Mission Reconcile	$6,789	1	38%
Memorial Lutheran Church	$6,486	1	n/a
The Bridge Teen Center Nfp	$6,250	1	1%
Lutheran Homes Society Inc	$6,200	1	0%
Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation Nfp	$6,000	1	0%
Shepherd of the City Lutheran	$6,000	1	n/a
Restoring Justice	$5,957	1	1%
Niagara Lutheran Health Systems Inc	$5,769	1	0%
The Field School	$5,620	1	1%
Third Avenue Charitable Organization	$5,262	1	n/a
Compassion Outreach of America	$5,109	1	5%

We Raise Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 68.

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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.

Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global RefugeMD21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Christopher Family Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Lutheran Legacy Foundation Inc · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc

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 We Raise Foundation

How much does We Raise Foundation give?: We Raise Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $541,765 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does We Raise Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Youth Development (18%), Community Improvement (18%).
Who are We Raise Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: MAAFA Redemption Project ($703k), Center for Urban Education Ministries Inc ($349k), Kingdom Prep Lutheran High School Inc ($300k).
Does We Raise Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as We Raise Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans.
Where is We Raise Foundation based?: We Raise Foundation is based in IL.