· Private foundation
John & Barbara Knapp Charitable 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA | $5,000 |
| CAMP WAPSIE CAMPAIGN | $2,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CHURCH | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $1,000 |
| WAYPOINT | $1,000 |
| IOWA PARROT RESCUE | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WSWAYPOINT SERVICES6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +21%
- OIORCHESTRA IOWA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +12%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- NCNorthwest Community Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +36%
- BIBRUCEMORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +181%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The independent insurance agents of iowa will be an unrelenting advocate of the business, professional and political interests of its members; doing so by working in the public's interest and with the highest ethical standards.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
Through dynamic partnerships, quality family services, advocacy and education, neicac advances community development and improves social and economic conditions for individuals and families with limited resources.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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 UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital ↗
- Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds IOWA PARROT RESCUE ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The McIntyre Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · John P & Lawrence J Giacoletto Fnd · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Barbara Knapp Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Barbara Knapp Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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