Illinois · Private foundation
Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $100k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $90k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $91k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $92k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $91k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $93k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $86k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $96k | 3% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Health Partnership Clinic | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Ability Center | $28,000 | 9 | 0% |
| War Horses for Veterans Inc | $24,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Teaching Family Homes Upper Michigan Inc | $24,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Casa of McHenry County Inc | $23,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cary Grove Food Pantry | $22,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Home of the Sparrow Inc | $22,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Period Collective Inc | $21,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Urban Farm | $21,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($337k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Aptargroup Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation for McHenry County · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Full Circle Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · UNITED WAY OF GREATER McHENRY COUNTY INC · The Bersted Foundation · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · Baxter International Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation with peer funders
About Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation
- How much does Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation give?
- Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Health (13%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Health Partnership Clinic ($35k), National Ability Center ($28k), War Horses for Veterans Inc ($25k).
- Does Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard and Geraldine Knaack 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 Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aptargroup Charitable Foundation, The Community Foundation for McHenry County, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation based?
- Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation is based in IL.
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