· Private foundation
Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati 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: 64% of EDWARD B AND JOAN T KNIGHT FOUNDATI 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 $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $538k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $564k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL BOARD OF MONROE COUNTY | $500,000 |
| CFK FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| WESTLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICE | $150,000 |
| SOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL-BOY SCOUTS | $100,000 |
| FLORIDA KEYS HEALTH EDUCATION | $88,563 |
| MONROE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO | $75,000 |
| MONTESSORI CHILDRENS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR | $50,000 |
| STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,225 |
| SAMUEL'S HOUSE | $40,000 |
| KEY WEST LIONS CLUB | $40,000 |
| AUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| KEY WEST ROTARY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +13%- MCMONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $535k · revenue +13%
- WIWOMANKIND INC3× · 2018–2022 · $385k · revenue +70% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSOS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $500k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $315k
- FKFL KEYS AREA HEALTH EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k
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.
Dedicated to the conservation and preservation of the waters in and around south florida through wise fishery & watermanagement practices, while recognizing the importance of sport fishing to the local economy and the cultural heritage of…
Rescue, rehabilitate, and release native and migratory wild birds harmed or displaced; provide or locate a humane shelter for those birds that cannot be released; and educate the public.
To preserve Key Wests Little White House, Floridas only presidential museum, and programming that supports civic engagement, education, and the historic and cultural influences of the Truman era.
Promoting the humane treatment of all animals through compassionate care, adoption, education, population control and humane law enforcement. Activities include: animal control, low cost spay & neuter and wellness clinic, adoption,…
Kwtcs is a theater, community stage and gathering place, that serves as a springboard to ignite creative excellence, quality entertainment, intellectual stimulation, challenge and opportunity.
To promote moving-picture media as an essential art form to educate and engage members and visitors through the presentation of film, video, and new media. To maintain and develop Tropic Cinema as the principal venue for the Key West Film…
To provide theater performances and educational programs for the residents of Key West, the Florida Keys, and for the many visitors to the Keys. Recognized as the Best Professional Theater in Florida for many years. We also ensure…
The mission of the Tennessee Williams Key West Exhibit is to collect, preserve, and showcase historic archival materials directly related to the writings and artistic creations that won Tennessee Williams multiple awards, including two…
We unite people and resources across the Florida Keys to ensure familiesdespite geographic and transportation barriershave access to coordinated care, maternal and mental health support, education, and services that promote healthy…
To produce and promote original & established plays at different venues in the florida keys
Promotion of the arts in key west by providing a cultural center to be used for art exhibits, education, and the encouragement of artistic development throughout the community.
Our mission is to make safe, affordable, dignified, and desirable housing available to low income residents within and throughout monroe county florida
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Key West Art and Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fleming Street Faith Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 73 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 WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMANKIND INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FLEMING STREET FAITH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNCIL OF THE ARTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Montessori Children's School of Key West Inc ↗
- Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNMOST HOCKEY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Keys To Be The Change Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR FLORIDA'S NATIONAL PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE 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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Keys Open Doors Foundation Inc · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Dion Banks Foundation · The Sexton Family Foundation · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · Klaus Murphy Fdn · The Dogwood Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Harry & Harriet Ruchman Foundation Inc · Hunterward Foundation · Lookout Foundation Inc
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 Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Monroe Council of the Arts Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Samuel's House Inc — 0% of income from government
- Fleming Street Faith Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.