· Private foundation
James a and Faith Knight 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 $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $770k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGA | $57,300 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER | $50,000 |
| FOOD GATHERERS | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $45,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOT | $40,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLE | $35,000 |
| NEUTRAL ZONE | $30,000 |
| SAFEHOUSE CENTER | $30,000 |
| BIRD CENTER OF WASHTENAW COUNTY | $28,000 |
| CIVIL AIR PATROL | $25,000 |
| NONPROFIT NETWORK | $25,000 |
| 826 MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS IN DEED | $25,000 |
| PACKARD HEALTH | $25,000 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- TWTHE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN6× · 2019–2024 · $300k · revenue +97%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN7× · 2018–2024 · $290k · revenue +44%- FGFOOD GATHERERS6× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- YDYPSILANTI DISTRICT LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $50k
- UWUNITED WAY OF WASHTENAW COUNTYone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -92%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $40k
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.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Through internal expertise, external partnerships, and advocacy, the area agency on aging of western michigan provides older adults, adults with disabilities, and their caregivers equitable access to services that promote independence and…
Works to end environmental injustice by empowering communities at the grassroots level.the corporation is organzied exclusively for charitable, religious, educational and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the makeing of…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special
Be and create stewards for the water environment of michigan. provide high quality education for michigan's water professionals. educate and inform policy makers and the general public. promote scientifically sound environmental practices…
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
With an emphasis on socio-economically disadvantaged youth and families, the Ann Arbor Community Center, Inc. (AACC) is a vital community resource that provides high quality programs, information and services to citizens in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Saline High School Prep Hockey Team. 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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 97 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 THE WOMEN'S CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF HURON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Friends In Deed ↗
- Who funds GIRLS GROUP ↗
- Who funds OZONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRD CENTER OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Neutral Zone ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds YPSILANTI MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WASHTENAW AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peace Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds Active Against ALS ↗
- Who funds Therapeutic Riding Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TREELINE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS LITERACY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Ann Arbor Art Association ↗
- Who funds The Stewardship Network ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ABILITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGACY LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALLEN CREEK PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STUDENT ADVOCACY CENTER OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds APPLE PLAYSCHOOLS ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · The Martin Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Buhr Foundation · Duffy Foundation · Speckhard-Knight Charitable Foundation · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Herrick Foundation · Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Inc
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 James a and Faith Knight 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.