· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $355k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEIQUE | $150,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $105,000 |
| PASADENA PLAYHOUSE | $100,000 |
| CENTER THEATRE GROUP | $30,000 |
| HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $22,000 |
| PASADENA JEWISH TEMPLE AND CENTER | $15,500 |
| PASADENA HERITAGE | $15,000 |
| RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPERO | $10,000 |
| ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| GREATER LOS ANGELES ZOO ASSOCIATION | $8,100 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- ACAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC3× · 2018–2023 · $715k · revenue +25%
- MMuseIque8× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +58%
- TPTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $282k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $155k
- PHPasadena Hospital Association Ltdone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…
The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation and the most unlike its peers is BNai Simcha Jewish Community Preschool. 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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
135 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. 135 of the 210 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Conservatory of Music ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HERITAGE ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Child Development Associates Inc doing business as PCDA ↗
- Who funds ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEAR NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FULCRUM ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PASADENA ART ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT ISSIE SHAPIRO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
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: 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
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 Harvey and Ellen Knell Foundation 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.
- Sharsheret Inc — 4% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.