· Private foundation
Howard and Geraldine Knaack 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERAN'S PATH TO HOPE | $4,000 |
| THE GIVING CLOSET OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $4,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| FAMILY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC | $4,000 |
| M-BAR-C RANCH | $4,000 |
| SOUL HARBOR RANCH | $3,000 |
| MARQUETTE WOMEN'S CENTER | $3,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY CO | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $3,000 |
| WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS | $3,000 |
| TEACHING FAMILY HOMES | $3,000 |
| ILLINOIS GIVENKIND CENTER | $3,000 |
| COSI | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinic8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +82%
- WHWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +330%
- TFTEACHING FAMILY HOMES UPPER MICHIGAN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- J4JULY 4TH HIGHLAND PARK SHOOTING RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $2k
- NSNDARSORG SOBER LIVING SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2017 · $2k
- GNGIVE N KINDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +213%
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.
Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…
Provide services in response to individual need
Renaissance Social Services (RSSI) is a unique organization that connects those in need with housing that is safe, quality and affordable. After helping clients attain housing RSSI provides them with comprehensive, flexible, client focused…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
To provide food, information and resources to the west englewood community on the south side of chicago, il. our goal is to also increase financial and emotional stability to its residents while combating food insecurity, hunger and…
Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids
Employment support and exchange for veterans
To insure safe and secure homes for abused, neglected and troubled children; committed to a continuim of professional care that provides parental training, support and services to maximize the growth and development of each child in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Joshua Mission 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 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 67 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 Family Health Partnership Clinic ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHING FAMILY HOMES UPPER MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA ↗
- Who funds Feeding Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Soul Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds JK COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
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: 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
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 Howard and Geraldine Knaack 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.
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.