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David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$283k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$281,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$281,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$577k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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 arriving2$283k0%
FY20247$25k71%
FY20232$17k50%
FY20225$15k20%
FY20217$13k14%
FY20208$21k38%
FY20199$21kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStudents Shoulder-To-Shoulder: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% 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

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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 9.

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About David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn

How much does David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn give?
David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn reported 2 grants totaling $282,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (79%), Health (7%), Housing & Shelter (5%).
Who are David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Cancer Society Inc ($8k), United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($7k), The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ($5k).
Does David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn based?
David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn is based in OH.

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 21 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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