· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| M-BAR-C RANCH | $5,000 |
| VETERAN'S PATH TO HOPE | $5,000 |
| THE GIVING CLOSET OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC | $4,000 |
| MARQUETTE WOMEN'S CENTER | $4,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED OF MCHENRY CO | $3,000 |
| CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ILLINOIS GIVENKIND CENTER | $3,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN ADAPTIVE SKI PROGRAM (SEWASP) | $3,000 |
| COSI | $3,000 |
| SOUL HARBOR RANCH | $3,000 |
| TEACHING FAMILY HOMES | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FHFamily Health Partnership Clinic9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +82%
- WHWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +330%
- TFTEACHING FAMILY HOMES UPPER MICHIGAN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CMCRU MILITARY ATTN GABRIEL GARRIGAone grant, 2022 · $2k
- SBSECOND BRIDGE (KIDS IN NEED)one grant, 2023 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
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…
Advancing lives of connection, contribution and meaning for persons with developmental disabilities and the individuals that support them.
Provide services in response to individual need
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
Growing home is a nonprofit usda-certified organic farm and workforce development center, serving the greater englewood community of chicago through innovative paid employment training and nutritious, affordable produce. we believe…
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.
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…
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…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
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.
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 69 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CASA OF MCHENRY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARY GROVE FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Home of the Sparrow Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARM ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF NORTHWEST ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE QUAD CITIES AREA ↗
- Who funds Soul Harbour Ranch Animal Therapy Program ↗
- Who funds Transitional Living Services Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE ACRES CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds JK COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds ROOM AT THE INN ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Geraldine Knaack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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