California · Private foundation
Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $585k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 97
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 60 | $582k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $1.4M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 97 | $1.4M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $419k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $1.0M | 51% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $231k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $243k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $433k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $714,906 | 3 | 1% |
| MuseIque | $625,100 | 8 | 5% |
| The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc | $282,175 | 6 | 1% |
| Pasadena Conservatory of Music | $280,250 | 8 | 5% |
| Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery | $177,030 | 8 | 0% |
| Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center | $122,622 | 5 | n/a |
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $113,940 | 7 | 0% |
| Pasadena Heritage | $93,993 | 7 | 2% |
| Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA | $83,540 | 5 | 0% |
| Armory Center for the Arts | $69,750 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · Pasadena Showcase House For The Arts · The Green Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation · Gail G Ellis Foundation Inc · Jerry & Terri Kohl Family Foundation · Perenchio Foundation
How this is measured
About Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation
- How much does Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation give?
- Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $584,620 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 97 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Science & Tech (27%), Health (23%).
- Who are Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc ($715k), MuseIque ($625k), The Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California Inc ($282k).
- Does Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation based?
- Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation is based in CA.
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