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Plinth

· Private foundation

David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$283k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$282k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Philanthropy$314kHealth$27kHousing & Shelter$19kYouth Development$16kHuman Services$12kEducation$5kArts & Culture$3kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $250k+1 grant · $282k
$281,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$577k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC$281,500
LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FND$1,100
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%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 edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$358k · 8 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$358k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+44%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • HF
    HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $300k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF
    5× · 2019–2024 · $19k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $15k

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -81%
  • FO
    Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -85%
  • GC
    GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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

04Your 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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

6
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
7
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
8
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
9
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

11
Ucf Athletics Association Inc

To provide opportunity to young people and develop leaders for industry, philanthropy, education and the community through the intercollegiate athletic experience.

Education
12
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Tri-State. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · OtherHEIGHTS FOUNDATION INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF — $19,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OFBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — $15,000 · Other+8 more — $20,600 · Other+8 moreUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $7,000 · PhilanthropySTUDENTS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER — $4,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · PhilanthropyThe United Way of Lee County Inc — $3,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $7,500 · HealthFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc — $5,000 · HealthThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio — $5,000 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · EducationHONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE — $3,400 · Arts & Culture
Other$354,600Philanthropy$17,500Health$12,500Human Services$5,000Education$3,500Arts & Culture$3,400

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 budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER — $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE — $3,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati
  • Who funds Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio
  • Who funds STUDENTS SHOULDER-TO-SHOULDER
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE
  • Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 69%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc69% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 21 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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