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Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$425k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,983
Largest grant, FY2025
$49,522
Organizations funded a year
23 to 29
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2025still arriving31$425k26%
FY202429$447k17%
FY202327$297k4%
FY202228$289k14%
FY202126$387k23%
FY202023$276kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$414kHuman Services$297kEducation$297kInternational$295kReligion$280kHousing & Shelter$165kFood & Nutrition$64kPhilanthropy$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
PA
CA
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Point Loma Nazarene University$274,52230%
As Our Own Nfp$205,00055%
Payson Christian Clinic Inc$177,000616%
Grace Works Global$145,000615%
Smile Train Inc$139,93060%
Charity Global Inc$130,50060%
Pacific Garden Mission$44,9836n/a
Time Out Inc$34,64612%
Payson Senior Center Inc$32,60661%
Global Initiatives Inc$31,0004100%
Show all 28 grantees
All grantees of Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Point Loma Nazarene University$274,52230%
As Our Own Nfp$205,00055%
Payson Christian Clinic Inc$177,000616%
Grace Works Global$145,000615%
Smile Train Inc$139,93060%
Charity Global Inc$130,50060%
Pacific Garden Mission$44,9836n/a
Time Out Inc$34,64612%
Payson Senior Center Inc$32,60661%
Global Initiatives Inc$31,0004100%
Norman Moore Ministries$29,00063%
Payson Community Kids Inc$27,00066%
The Knauss Homestead Preservation Society$25,00034%
Trickle Up Program Inc$22,50050%
One International Inc$15,3581n/a
Likewise Worship Inc$15,00022%
Arizona Bible College$15,000121%
Life More Abundantly$15,00034%
Himalayan Cataract Project Inc$13,50060%
Free Wheelchair Mission$10,50060%
International Living Streams$10,0001n/a
Campus Crusade for Christ Inc$10,0001n/a
Christian Family Care Agency Inc$9,00040%
Owl Love You Forever$7,5004n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$5,00010%
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Arizona Inc$5,0001n/a
Uplift Ministy Inc$3,0001n/a
Gateways to Better Education$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($665k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPoint Loma Nazarene University: $274,522 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAs Our Own Nfp: $205,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetPayson Christian Clinic Inc: $177,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetGrace Works Global: $145,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $139,930 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $130,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTime Out Inc: $34,646 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPayson Senior Center Inc: $32,606 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGlobal Initiatives Inc: $31,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetNorman Moore Ministries: $29,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetPayson Community Kids Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetThe Knauss Homestead Preservation Society: $25,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTrickle Up Program Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLikewise Worship Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetArizona Bible College: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLife More Abundantly: $15,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHimalayan Cataract Project Inc: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFree Wheelchair Mission: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Family Care Agency Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGateways to Better Education: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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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 21.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc

How much does Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc give?
Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $425,033 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Human Services (14%), Education (14%).
Who are Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Point Loma Nazarene University ($275k), As Our Own Nfp ($205k), Payson Christian Clinic Inc ($177k).
Does Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc based?
Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc is based in AZ.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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