Skip to content

Oklahoma · Private foundation

Clifford L Knight Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$155k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2024
38
Organizations funded FY2022
21%
First-time grantees FY2022
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 42
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 21% of the organizations Clifford L Knight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$154k3%
FY202238$88k21%
FY202135$90k26%
FY202042$86kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$83kArts & Culture$70kHuman Services$42kEnvironment$40kReligion$40kAnimals$40kFood & Nutrition$25kEducation$21kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clifford L Knight Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc: $12,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMiraclefeet: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma City Beautiful Inc: $11,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCity Rescue Mission Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFree to Live Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetInfant Crisis Services Inc: $8,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWashington University: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeed the Children Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarian Middle School: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmnesty International of the USA Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma 4-H Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater St Louis Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMunicipal Theatre Association of St Louis: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Humane Society: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCircus Flora Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNeighborhood Services Organization Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissouri Historical Society: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouthside Early Childhood Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeppers Ranch Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHearts for Hearing Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Communities Foundation of OklahomaOK17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Bowen Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Olson Family Foundation Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Love Meyer Family Foundation

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.

Compare Clifford L Knight Foundation with peer funders

About Clifford L Knight Foundation

How much does Clifford L Knight Foundation give?
Clifford L Knight Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $154,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Clifford L Knight Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (20%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Clifford L Knight Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($26k), Salvation Army ($17k), Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($16k).
Does Clifford L Knight Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Clifford L Knight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Clifford L Knight Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Oklahoma, Bowen Foundation, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation.
Where is Clifford L Knight Foundation based?
Clifford L Knight Foundation is based in OK.

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 61 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Clifford L Knight’s filings →

More from the funding graph