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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Community Improvement$1.3MHuman Services$582kReligion$351kCrime & Legal$324kEducation$221kYouth Development$106kEmployment$100kArts & Culture$48kHealth$36kOther$2.0M
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
GOOD NEWS HAWAII CHURCH$15,000
CHRISTIAN TECH CENTER$15,000
MT TABOR SCHOOL OF THE LIBERAL ARTS$15,000
CITY HOPE TEMPE$15,000
MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL$15,000
CENTER FOR URBAN EDUCATION$12,299
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES$9,000
SIEBERT LUTHERAN FOUNDATION$8,850
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your 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 your 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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your 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

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you 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

+77%
+26%

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
  • LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • FH
    FARMING HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +233%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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
3
Austin City Lutherans

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

Religion
4
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
5
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
Health
6
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
7
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…

—
8
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
9
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

—
10
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
11
Liberty Ministries

The ministry exists to serve offenders in prison and ex-offenders in the community by showing god's love, providing practical assistance, and supporting biblical standards of justice.

—
12
Bridge of Hope Ministries

Transforming lives in the Ville through access to supportive services and efficacy.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawndale Christian Legal Center and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsSenior Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Ymca Youth DevelopmentPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%23%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/98
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,467

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/75
Grantees still filing
52/75
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 · ReligionJUSTDANE — $45,000 · ReligionLUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF WISCONSIN AND UPPER MICHIGAN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFARMING HOPE — $100,000 over 1y, 8.1% 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 budgetElizabeth Home — $82,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCanopy NWA — $82,500 over 3y, 4.7% 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 budgetJUSTDANE — $45,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED — $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization We Raise Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines