· Private foundation
Janet H & C Harry Knowles Foundation Inc A/K/A Knowles Teacher Initiative
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of Janet H & C Harry Knowles Foundation Inc A/K/A Knowles Teacher Initiative’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k212 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $13,636 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,344 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,478 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,190 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,985 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,754 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,058 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,361 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,918 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,826 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,481 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,462 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,351 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,329 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
577 repeat relationships — 179 still active in FY2025, 398 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
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
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2025 · $61k
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2025 · $58k
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2025 · $55k
Funded once
- THTownship Highshcool District 214one grant, 2017 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 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. 0 of the 870 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.
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