Funding search · EIN 860931606 · Payson, AZ

Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation

Name: Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

115
grants reported: $1.5M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

religious medical health missionary educational christian education family

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Point Loma Nazarene Univ1 grant · $125,000
Time Out Shelter3 grants · $105,000
Rise Congo3 grants · $88,000
Payson Christian Clinic3 grants · $85,000
Graceworks Global3 grants · $80,000
Charity Water3 grants · $75,000
As Our Own3 grants · $70,000
The Smile Train3 grants · $70,000
Point Loma Nazarene University1 grant · $49,522
Payson Christian Clinic1 grant · $35,000

Giving over time

$289,000

2022

$296,500

2023

$447,000

2024

$425,033

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 115 grants.

$125,000
Point Loma Nazarene Univ · San Diego, CA · 2024
General purpose
$49,522
Point Loma Nazarene University · San Diego, CA · 2025
Educational
$45,000
Time Out Shelter · Payson, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$43,000
Rise Congo · Payson, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$35,000
Graceworks Global · Payson, AZ · 2025
Religious
$35,000
Payson Christian Clinic · Payson, AZ · 2025
Medical
$34,646
Time Out · Payson, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$30,000
Rise Congo · Payson, AZ · 2025
charitable
$30,000
Charity Water · New York, NY · 2024
General purpose
$30,000
Graceworks Global · Payson, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$30,000
Payson Christian Clinic · Payson, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$30,000
Time Out Shelter · Payson, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$30,000
Payson Christian Clinic · Payson, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$30,000
Time Out Shelter · Payson, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$29,930
Natl Chrisian Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Charitable
$29,930
Smile Train · New York, NY · 2025
Medical
$25,500
Charity Global · Franklin, TN · 2025
Charitable
$25,000
Indo Partners · Mesa, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$25,000
As Our Own · Houston, TX · 2024
Missionary
$25,000
Rise Congo · Payson, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
The Smile Train · New York, NY · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
Graceworks Global · Payson, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$25,000
Payson Christian Clinic · Payson, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$25,000
As Our Own · Houston, TX · 2022
Missionary
$25,000
Charity Water · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$25,000
Graceworks Global · Payson, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$25,000
The Smile Train · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$20,000
As Our Own · Houston, TX · 2023
Missionary
$20,000
Charity Water · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Pacific Gardens Mission · Chicago, IL · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
The Smile Train · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Rise Congo · Payson, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$15,358
One International · Griffin, GA · 2025
Religious
$15,000
Indo Partners · Mesa, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
Jesus Film Harvest Partners · Olathe, KS · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
Start With One · Hartford, AL · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
Arizona Bible College · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$10,106
Payson Senior Center · Payson, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$10,058
Save the Family · Mesa, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$10,000
International Living Streams · Burleson, TX · 2025
Charitable
$10,000
Life More Abundantly Resource Cente · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
Religious
$10,000
Likewise Worship Care · Huntington Beach, CA · 2025
Religious
$10,000
Pacific Gardens Mission · Chicago, IL · 2024
General purpose
$10,000
Save the Family · Mesa, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$10,000
Indo Partners · Mesa, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$10,000
Jesus Film Harvest Partners · Olathe, KS · 2023
General purpose
$10,000
Global Initiatives · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
Religious
$10,000
Indo Partners · Mesa, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$10,000
Jesus Film Harvest Partners · Olathe, KS · 2022
General purpose
$10,000
Knauss Homestead Preservation · Emmaus, PA · 2022
General purpose
$9,983
Pacific Gardens Mission · Chicago, IL · 2025
Religious
$7,500
Payson Multi-Purpose Senior Center · Payson, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$6,000
Deliberate-Nick Fletcher · Dallas, TX · 2024
Health
$6,000
Deliberate-Nick Fletcher · Dallas, TX · 2023
Health
$5,000
Child Evangelism Fellowship · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
Religious
$5,000
Feed My Starving Children · Boca Raton, FL · 2025
Christian Family Services
$5,000
Himalayan Cataract Project · Waterbury, VT · 2025
Medical
$5,000
New Beginnings Center · Payson, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$5,000
Norman Moore Ministries · Long Beach, CA · 2025
Religious
$5,000
Payson Community Kids · Payson, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$5,000
Trickle Up · New York, NY · 2025
Charitable
$5,000
Feed My Starving Children · Boca Raton, FL · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Life More Abundantly · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Charitable
$5,000
Likewise Worship Care · Huntington Beach, CA · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Norman Moore Ministries · Long Beach, CA · 2024
Religious
$5,000
Payson Community Kids · Payson, AZ · 2024
Charitable
$5,000
Trickle Up · New York, NY · 2024
General purpose
$5,000
Feed My Starving Children · Boca Raton, FL · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Life More Abundantly · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Charitable
$5,000
Norman Moore Ministries · Long Beach, CA · 2023
Religious
$5,000
Payson Community Kids · Payson, AZ · 2023
Charitable
$5,000
Payson Multi-Purpose Senior Center · Payson, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Save the Family · Mesa, AZ · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Trickle Up · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$5,000
Deliberate-Nick Fletcher · Dallas, TX · 2022
Health
$5,000
Life More Abundantly · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Norman Moore Ministries · Long Beach, CA · 2022
Religious
$5,000
Payson Community Kids · Payson, AZ · 2022
Charitable
$5,000
Payson Multi-Purpose Senior Center · Payson, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
Save the Family · Mesa, AZ · 2022
General purpose
$5,000
Trickle Up · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$3,000
Global Initiatives · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Religious
$3,000
Pacific Gardens Mission · Chicago, IL · 2022
General purpose
$2,500
Bridging Arizona · Mesa, AZ · 2025
Religious
$2,500
Bush Telegraph · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
Educational
$2,500
Child Crisis Center · Mesa, AZ · 2025
Charitable
$2,500
Christian Family Care · Phoenix, AZ · 2025
Medical
$2,500
Free Wheelchair Mission · Irvine, CA · 2025
Medical
$2,500
Gateways To Better Education · Laguna Hills, CA · 2025
Education
$2,500
Reigning Grace · Scottsdale, AZ · 2025
Religious
$2,500
St Bonaventure Indian Mission · Thoreau, NM · 2025
Charitable
$2,500
Bush Telegraph · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
Charitable
$2,500
Child Crisis Center · Mesa, AZ · 2024
Charitable
$2,500
Christian Family Care · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$2,500
Himalayan Cataract Project · Waterbury, VT · 2024
General purpose
$2,500
New Beginnings Center · Payson, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$2,000
Bridging Arizona · Mesa, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$2,000
Free Wheelchair Mission · Irvine, CA · 2024
General purpose
$2,000
Reigning Grace · Scottsdale, AZ · 2024
General purpose
$2,000
Bush Telegraph · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Charitable

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.