· Private foundation
Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Point Loma Nazarene University | $49,522 |
| Payson Christian Clinic | $35,000 |
| Graceworks Global | $35,000 |
| Time Out Inc | $34,646 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Natl Chrisian Charitable Foundation | $29,930 |
| Smile Train | $29,930 |
| Charity Global Inc | $25,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| One International | $15,358 |
| Payson Senior Center | $10,106 |
| Save the Family | $10,058 |
| Likewise Worship Care | $10,000 |
| International Living Streams | $10,000 |
| Life More Abundantly Resource Cente | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those 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.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- PLPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY3× · 2021–2025 · $275k · revenue +27%
- AOAS OUR OWN NFP5× · 2020–2024 · $205k · revenue +11%
- PCPAYSON CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $177k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2021 · $50k
- ABArizona Bible Collegeone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -74%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.
Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.
Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.
Spokens Mission is Deliver Truth...Where Written Words Cant Go. Most missiologists will agree that 2/3 of the world is populated with oral learners. Among this population, a person learns best by listening and interacting with stories,…
To train pastors/leaders in africa who have little or no formal training and resources. teach them how to study and prepare bible-based messages using the thompson chain reference study bible and to provide bible to trained pastors/leaders.
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The mission of Global Trust Partners is empowering national workers and building trust in churches and ministries to grow local generous giving to Gods work.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
Likewise Ministry exists to train Christians in the disciple-making strategy of Jesus. Through an in-depth study of the life of Christ, ongoing coaching, and on-location training experiences, learners are equipped to apply Jesus' model to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Wheelchair Mission and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 48 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 POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AS OUR OWN NFP ↗
- Who funds PAYSON CHRISTIAN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE WORKS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
- Who funds PAYSON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN MOORE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PAYSON COMMUNITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNAUSS HOMESTEAD PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Likewise Worship Inc ↗
- Who funds Arizona Bible College ↗
- Who funds LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds International Living Streams ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 Dalton & Elaine Knauss Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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