· Private foundation
John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Greater New Orleans Foundation | $30,000 |
| Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church | $25,000 |
| Upturn Arts | $25,000 |
| Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation inc | $25,000 |
| Joyful Noise Singers Inc | $10,000 |
| Peace Drums USA Inc | $10,000 |
| Morris Jeff Community School | $10,000 |
| O Positive Festivals Inc | $10,000 |
| 12 PLUS | $10,000 |
| Lyric Fest | $10,000 |
| Dignity Housing | $10,000 |
| Education Law Center - PA | $10,000 |
| Singing City Inc | $7,500 |
| ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC | $5,000 |
| Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $169k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- 1P12 PLUS4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +232%
WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $89k · revenue +10%- UAUPTURN ARTS4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +66%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -40%- SJST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MLMAIN LINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INCone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.
Astral's mission is to empower outstanding emerging musicians to shape purposeful and sustainable careers that inspire, connect, and excite diverse audiences. in november 2024, the board voted and approved that for various reasons, the…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
Commusication (cmc) provides free high-quality and accessible after school music programs for youth in grades k-12. programs support the development of leadership and socio-emotional skills along with musical development. cmc provides…
To engage our community in a life more beautiful through the shared experience and transformative impact of chamber music, by arranging diverse and compelling programs by exceptional artists at affordable prices, and by presenting new…
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
Boldly leverage the power of the performing arts to catalyze social change, challenge bias, and create spaces for dialogue and understanding by presenting culturally diverse voices that celebrate and affirm our shared humanity.
Partnership with children's mission is to strengthen the emotional, social, and cognitive skills of children in new york city so they can succeed in school, society, and life.
Project 440 teaches young people how to use music as a pathway to forge opportunities for themselves and ignite change in their communities.
To be philadelphia's professional producer of quality grand opera, producing a diverse range of repertoire featuring international artists alongside rising young singers, and to produce educational programs which nurture the future and…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty's Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Islamic Relief Usa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 32 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 GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 12 PLUS ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPTURN ARTS ↗
- Who funds LYRIC FEST ↗
- Who funds SINGING CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds O POSITIVE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE DRUMS USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds NYC SALT INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn 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.
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