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Andrew J Knuth Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$656k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Housing & Shelter$524kYouth Development$165kEducation$160kReligion$55kHuman Services$54kHealth$38kFood & Nutrition$25kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION HOPE$500,000
CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$25,000
LIVFREE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CAROLINE HOUSE$25,000
ST JOHNS FAMILY CENTER$25,000
SHEPHERDS INC$10,000
FAIRFIELD LIBRARY$6,000
BEN'S LIGHTHOUSE INC$5,000
FEEDING FAMILIES FOUNDATION$5,000
ANA GRACE PROJECT$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ST JOHNS FAMILY CENTER: $25k → 9%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $25k → 9%BEN'S LIGHTHOUSE INC: $5k → 9%STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $1k → 9%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.

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 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
St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury

The st. vincent depaul mission of waterbury, inc., through its network of services, aids, supports and empowers people experiencing poverty, homelessness, hunger, and mental health challenges so they may recover with dignity and develop…

Health
2
United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc

United way coastal and western connecticut (uwcwc) envisions a community where every person is healthy, safe, and economically secure. our mission is to work in partnership with community to address critical needs and advance equitable…

Philanthropy
3
Winchester Historical Society
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4
Connecticut Partnership for Children Inc

Connecticut partnership for children, inc., is dedicated to supporting low- income children throughout connecticut, by working with their families and the communities in which they live.

Human Services
5
Abby Kelley Foster House Inc

To provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered and low-income women, with or without children. abby's house empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with…

Housing & Shelter
6
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

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7
Inspirica Inc

Inspirica is one of the largest providers of emergency housing, permanent supportive housing and support services in connecticut. each night, we house over 500 people including children. we operate 12 facilities in stamford and provide an…

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8
Connecticut Health Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Focus Center for Autism Inc

Focus center for autism: helping children and adults with autism achieve their full potential.

Education
10
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
11
New London Area Food Pantry

Serving the residents of New London and Southeastern CT by offering a selection of groceries to those who cannot afford to meet their nutritional needs otherwise.

Human Services
12
Project Hope of Eastern Connecticut

The windham no freeze project is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to the short and long-term survival of adults experiencing homelessness in the windham region. safe, temporary shelter is provided in a caring environment and connections…

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kol Education Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr12%10%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr19%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr12%67%35–55yr19%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
10%
1,185/11,491

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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $500,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC+1 more — $1,500 · Housing & ShelterWAKEMA BOYS GIRLS CLUB — $160,000 · OtherWAKEMA BOYS GIRLS CLUBST FRANCIS — $30,000 · OtherST FRANCISIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAROLINE HOUSE INC — $25,000 · OtherCAROLINE HOUSE INCFAIRFIELD CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherFAIRFIELD CHRISTIAN CHURCHKEVIN M EIDT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP F — $25,000 · OtherKEVIN M EIDT MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $20,000 · OtherVARIOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS — $17,000 · Other+10 more — $35,500 · Other+10 moreDICKINSON COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationDICKINSON C…SHEPHERDS INC — $10,000 · EducationSHEPHERDS I…THE ANA GRACE PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesST JOHNS FAMILY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $22,500 · Human ServicesBENS LIGHTHOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesLIVFREE INC — $25,000 · HealthKOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $11,500 · Crime & LegalTHE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$501,500Other$392,500Education$116,000Human Services$78,500Health$25,000Crime & Legal$11,500Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAROLINE HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFEEDING FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ANA GRACE PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Synchrony FoundationFairfield County's Co…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Synchrony FoundationCT14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Synchrony Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Andrew J Knuth Family Charitable Trust 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.

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no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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