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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KINGDOM PREP LHS$300,000
JUMPSTART USA$100,599
ESCOLTA DREAM TEAM$30,719
MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL$15,000
MT TABOR SCHOOL OF THE LIBERAL ARTS$15,000
GOOD NEWS HAWAII CHURCH$15,000
CITY HOPE TEMPE$15,000
CHRISTIAN TECH CENTER$15,000
CENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION$12,299
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES$9,000
SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION$8,850
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $573k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska: $50k → 12%Grapevine Relief & Community Exchange: $11k → 11%Mill Community Ministries: $11k → 10%Flint Mission Network: $10k → 16%PRISM Economic Development Corporation: $33k → 17%Lutheran Community Services Northwest-Bend OR: $10k → 10%Lutheran Social Services Northwest: $11k → 11%House of Hope Refuge of Love Inc: $10k → 14%A01 Foundation: $10k → 5%Genacross Lutheran Services: $6k → 18%Mirror Ministries: $12k → 11%Mill Village Ministries: $10k → 10%PRISM Economic Development Corporation: $19k → 17%Elizabeth Gregory Home: $40k → 9%Compassion Outreach of America: $5k → 23%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska: $20k → 12%Possibility Labs: $11k → 10%Elizabeth Gregory Home: $25k → 9%Elizabeth Gregory Home: $18k → 9%Metropolitan Family Services (PSPC-CP4P): $15k → 14%Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska: $14k → 12%LSS Natl Capital Area: $11k → 14%Metropolitan Family Services (PSPC-CP4P): $15k → 14%Lutheran Church Charities: $9k → 14%Bethel New Life Inc: $40k → 14%West Side Forward (fka Bethel New Life): $18k → 14%Bethel New Life Inc: $15k → 14%River City Community Development Center: $11k → 14%River City Community Development Center: $5k → 14%Lutheran SS of Wisc & Upper Michigan: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 31 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
59

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+29%

Still filing today

90%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $506k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MR
    MAAFA Redemption Project
    2× · 2021–2024 · $703k · revenue +753%
  • HH
    Harbor House Ministries Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $232k · revenue +91%
  • SL
    SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $159k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LF
    LUTHERAN FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS MISSOURI
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • FH
    FARMING HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +207%
  • LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest

We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.

Religion
2
Lutheran Social Services of Southern California

Ignited by faith, we live out god's love by embracing, equipping and empowering vulnerable individuals, families and communities toward self-sufficiency.

Philanthropy
3
Redeeming Justice Network

Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…

Civil Rights
4
Light of Life Ministries Inc

Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.

Human Services
5
Lexington Rescue Mission

The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.

Human Services
6
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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7
Redemption Road Ministries

Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…

Religion
8
Lutheran Services in Iowa Inc

Lutheran services in iowa's mission is based on a christian philosophy of faithful service to all our neighbors. our mission is, indeed, why we do what we do: lutheran services in iowa responds to the love of jesus christ through…

Human Services
9
New Life Day Center Inc

New Life Day Center shares Christ's love with individuals experiencing homelessness, empowering them to pursue stability, self-sufficiency, and a hopeful future.

Human Services
10
Austin City Lutherans

Address food and housing insecurity for Austin-area low income families.

Religion
11
Lutheran Community Services for the Aged Inc

To provide community services including adult day, child care and home care .

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12
Ministry Center

We build bridges between people experiencing the immediate effects of poverty and homelessness to the physical and spiritual resources available to alleviate suffering and facilitate long term transformation.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services National Capital Areainc; the most unlike its peers is Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/75
Grantees still filing
53/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION MINISTRIES INC: $349,396 · OtherCENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION MINISTRIES INCKINGDOM PREP LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $300,000 · OtherKINGDOM PREP LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL INCLUTHERAN FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS MISSOURI: $200,000 · OtherLUTHERAN FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS MISSOURISIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC: $158,850 · OtherSIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INCLuther Place Memorial Church: $143,932 · OtherLuther Place Memorial ChurchBy The Hand Club For Kids: $110,289 · OtherSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $109,000 · OtherBENEDICT CENTER INC: $90,000 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $81,151 · OtherFARMING HOPE: $100,000 · Other+35 more: $500,946 · Other+35 moreMAAFA Redemption Project: $702,500 · Community ImprovementMAAFA Redemption ProjectHarbor House Ministries Inc: $231,846 · Community ImprovementHarbor House Ministries IncTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $210,870 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INCCanopy NWA: $82,500 · Community ImprovementCanopy NWA+3 more: $42,710 · Community ImprovementLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCI…LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $83,500 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMI…Elizabeth Home: $82,500 · Human ServicesElizabeth Hom…BETHEL NEW LIFE INC: $72,500 · Human ServicesBETHEL NEW LI…PRISM Economic Development Corporation: $51,089 · Human ServicesPRISM Economi…Metropolitan Family Services: $30,000 · Human ServicesLutheran Community Services Northwest: $21,250 · Human ServicesMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $20,845 · Human Services+12 more: $119,873 · Human Services+12 moreCHILDREN RISING INC: $86,797 · ReligionLINC NW: $84,305 · ReligionLUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $45,000 · ReligionJUSTDANE: $45,000 · ReligionSt Leonard's Ministries: $27,500 · ReligionLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $20,250 · Religion+4 more: $42,004 · ReligionLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $113,239 · Crime & LegalJUMPSTART: $100,599 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $53,264 · Crime & LegalCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $37,500 · Crime & LegalInside Out Network Inc: $13,329 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $5,957 · Crime & LegalKIDZ EXPRESS: $110,000 · EducationTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $42,743 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $36,558 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationRISE UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY: $10,720 · Education+1 more: $5,620 · EducationNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $76,389 · Youth DevelopmentGRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH: $12,929 · Youth DevelopmentSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $10,229 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRIDGE TEEN CENTER NFP: $6,250 · Youth Development
Other$2,143,564Community Improvement$1,270,426Human Services$581,557Religion$350,856Crime & Legal$323,888Education$220,641Youth Development$105,797

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAAFA Redemption Project: $702,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetHarbor House Ministries Inc: $231,846 over 3y, 14% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $210,870 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION INC: $158,850 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $113,239 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBy The Hand Club For Kids: $110,289 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKIDZ EXPRESS: $110,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetSUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: $109,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFARMING HOPE: $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC: $90,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC: $86,797 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLINC NW: $84,305 over 3y, 20% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $83,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCanopy NWA: $82,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetElizabeth Home: $82,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNew Life Centers of Chicagoland: $76,389 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBETHEL NEW LIFE INC: $72,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA KEYWAY CENTER FOR DIVERSION & REENTRY: $53,264 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPRISM Economic Development Corporation: $51,089 over 2y, 11% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH URBAN MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTDANE: $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SOULFISHER MINISTRIES: $42,743 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTABLE GRACE MINISTRIES: $38,402 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $36,558 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Leonard's Ministries: $27,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $21,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILL VILLAGE MINISTRIES: $20,845 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRestore Merced: $20,279 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLUTHERAN METROPOLITAN MINISTRY: $20,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPCARE CLINIC: $20,222 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRiver City Community Development Center: $15,885 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN TECH CENTER MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetInside Out Network Inc: $13,329 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGRIP OUTREACH FOR YOUTH: $12,929 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMirror Ministries: $12,247 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGRAPEVINE RELIEF AND COMMUNITY EXCHANGE: $11,470 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBridge Street House of Prayer: $11,050 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $10,820 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES NATIONAL CAPITAL AREAINC: $10,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,720 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOSSIBILITY LABS: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC: $10,470 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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 …United Way of Metropo…Thrivent Financial fo…Polk Bros Foundation …Thrivent Charitable I…The Christopher Famil…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Joyce FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…United Way of Greater…Lutheran Legacy Found…Siebert Lutheran Foun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization We Raise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from We Raise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 98 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home