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.

Clifford L Knight Foundation

Clifford L Knight Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k31 grants · $114k
$10k–50k3 grants · $41k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Alzheimer's Association	$15,000
St Clare of Assisi Church	$14,000
Doctors Without Borders	$12,000
National Audubon Society	$8,000
The Salvation Army	$7,000
Oklahoma City Beautiful	$5,750
Oklahoma Museum of Art	$5,000
Amnesty International	$5,000
Benedictine Sisters of Mount St Sch	$5,000
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma	$5,000
Miracle Feet	$5,000
Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospita	$5,000
YWCA	$5,000
Smile Train	$5,000
Oklahoma City Ballet	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$378k · 44 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$378k

$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+29%

Still filing today

59%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +13%
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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +14%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
2× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +39%

Funded once

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Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $5k
University of Chicagograduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +52%
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES ORGANIZATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +241%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees; the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

30/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$238,750Environment$42,250Health$42,000Human Services$30,250International$27,000Animals$19,500Education$19,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clifford L Knight Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clifford L Knight Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home