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Alice F & Cortland J Knipe Charitable Tr
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $865k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $150,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $150,000 |
| FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| USO | $100,000 |
| INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) | $65,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| HOPE RURAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $25,000 |
| VETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY | $25,000 |
| REMEMBER ME RESCUE NY | $25,000 |
| PET RESQ INC | $25,000 |
| RIVERSIDE THEATRE | $25,000 |
| THEATRICAL ARTS AT FORESTBURGH | $20,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D4× · 2020–2025 · $425k · revenue +42%
CITY HARVEST INC4× · 2020–2025 · $350k · revenue +3%- HRHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- MMMartin Memorial Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $250k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $250k
- CCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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To provide the diabetes research institute with the funding to cure diabetes now.
Our mission is to expand scientific knowledge and improve public health by designing and conducting world-class clinical trials and epidemiologic research.
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide high quality care & management services for people in need of long
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Council of Indian River Co and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Martin Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER CO ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN COUNTRY K-9 RESQ LTD ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CAREERS SUPPORT SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MOAACC Good Deeds Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds REMEMBER ME RESCUE NY INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds THEATRICAL ARTS AT FORESTBURGH INC ↗
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.
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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 Alice F & Cortland J Knipe Charitable Tr 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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