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David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn at a glance

· 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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (FY20–20, $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 its 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
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.
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.
$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
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

  • 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%
  • TC
    The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohiograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
  • GC
    GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

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,…

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc; 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 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. 10 of the 21 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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
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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David G and Susan L Knust Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 69%
  • Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
  • The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% 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, 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.

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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