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John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn at a glance

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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.

$212k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$201kEducation$192kHuman Services$161kPhilanthropy$105kHealth$39kReligion$38kYouth Development$37kCrime & Legal$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Greater New Orleans Foundation$30,000
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation inc$25,000
Upturn Arts$25,000
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church$25,000
Peace Drums USA Inc$10,000
Morris Jeff Community School$10,000
O Positive Festivals Inc$10,000
12 PLUS$10,000
Joyful Noise Singers Inc$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation inc: $25k → 10%Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation inc: $22k → 10%Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation inc: $21k → 10%Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation inc: $21k → 10%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $5k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $3k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $3k → 23%Upturn Arts: $25k → 23%Upturn Arts: $25k → 23%Upturn Arts: $10k → 23%Upturn Arts: $10k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
VA
DC
LA
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$706k · 23 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
6

Total granted

$706k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+8%

Still filing today

78%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • 1P
    12 PLUS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +232%
  • WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $89k · revenue +10%
  • UA
    UPTURN ARTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -40%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • ML
    MAIN LINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Play On Philly

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Astral Artists Inc

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…

Employment
3
New York City Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Performance Space 122 Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Commusication

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Washington Performing Arts Society

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Journey Arts

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Partnership With Children Inc

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.

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10
Project 440 Inc

Project 440 teaches young people how to use music as a pathway to forge opportunities for themselves and ignite change in their communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Opera Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberty's Kitchen Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

12 PLUS: $90,000 · Education12 PLUSLYRIC FEST: $65,000 · EducationLYRIC FESTMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $53,200 · EducationMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOLEducation Law Center - PA: $40,000 · EducationEducation Law Center - PALIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · EducationLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INCBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $12,500 · EducationSINGING CITY INC: $57,500 · OtherSINGING CITY INCJOYFUL NOISE SINGERS INC: $40,000 · OtherJOYFUL NOISE SINGERS INCCommittee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development: $35,000 · OtherCommittee for Dignity and F…Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church: $25,000 · OtherBryn Mawr Presbyterian Chur…NAMI NEW ORLEANS INC: $20,000 · OtherNAMI NEW ORLEANS INC+9 more: $34,000 · Other+9 moreWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $89,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FARM THERAPE…UPTURN ARTS: $70,000 · Human ServicesUPTURN ARTSELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesELLIS MARSALIS CENTER…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER N…O POSITIVE FESTIVAL INC: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC: $12,500 · Arts & CulturePEACE DRUMS USA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC: $35,000 · Crime & LegalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2,000 · InternationalNYC SALT INC: $7,500 · Youth Development
Education$285,700Other$211,500Human Services$169,000Philanthropy$105,000Arts & Culture$45,000Crime & Legal$35,000International$22,000Youth Development$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget12 PLUS: $90,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $89,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetUPTURN ARTS: $70,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetLYRIC FEST: $65,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSINGING CITY INC: $57,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $53,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCommittee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless Housing Development: $35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNAMI NEW ORLEANS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetO POSITIVE FESTIVAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPEACE DRUMS USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetNYC SALT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONCERTO SOLOISTS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF PHILADELPHIA: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI Georgia Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Goldring Family Found…Independence Foundati…The Philadelphia Cult…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to John K & Elizabeth W Knorr Char Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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