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Knapp Educational Fund Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$511kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kPublic Benefit$20kRecreation & Sports$1k
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
$11,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The County Commissioners for Kent C$20,000
Currituck County High School$18,500
Easton High School$15,750
North Caroline High School$13,508
St Michaels High School$13,500
North Dorchester High School$11,750
Kent Island High School$11,000
Queen Anne County High School$11,000
Colonel Richardson High School$9,250
South Dorchester High School$9,250
Washington High School$7,750
Crisfield High School$2,500
Caroline County Youth Soccer Associ$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Currituck County High School: $25k → 9%Queen Anne County High School: $25k → 7%Talbot Paramedic Foundation: $25k → 10%The County Commissioners for Kent C: $20k → 12%North Caroline High School: $22k → 13%North Dorchester High School: $12k → 15%Crisfield High School: $4k → 22%Currituck County High School: $19k → 9%Queen Anne County High School: $19k → 7%Easton High School: $21k → 10%North Caroline High School: $14k → 13%North Dorchester High School: $12k → 15%Crisfield High School: $3k → 22%Currituck County High School: $18k → 9%Queen Anne County High School: $17k → 7%Easton High School: $17k → 10%North Caroline High School: $11k → 13%North Dorchester High School: $11k → 15%Crisfield High School: $2k → 22%Currituck County High School: $11k → 9%Queen Anne County High School: $11k → 7%Easton High School: $16k → 10%North Caroline High School: $3k → 13%North Dorchester High School: $7k → 15%Crisfield High School: $2k → 22%Kent Island High School: $20k → 7%Easton High School: $11k → 10%Colonel Richardson High School: $11k → 13%South Dorchester High School: $13k → 15%Washington High School: $10k → 22%Kent Island High School: $17k → 7%St Michaels High School: $14k → 10%Colonel Richardson High School: $9k → 13%South Dorchester High School: $11k → 15%Washington High School: $9k → 22%Kent Island High School: $11k → 7%St Michaels High School: $11k → 10%Colonel Richardson High School: $8k → 13%South Dorchester High School: $9k → 15%Washington High School: $8k → 22%Kent Island High School: $9k → 7%St Michaels High School: $7k → 10%Colonel Richardson High School: $7k → 13%South Dorchester High School: $8k → 15%Washington High School: $3k → 22%St Michaels High School: $6k → 10%Caroline County Youth Soccer Associ: $1k → 13%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$511k · 11 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$511k
$25k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CC
    Currituck County High School
    4× · 2020–2023 · $72k
  • QA
    Queen Anne County High School
    4× · 2020–2023 · $71k
  • EH
    Easton High School
    4× · 2020–2023 · $65k

Funded once

  • TP
    Talbot Paramedic Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
04the grantee network

1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Currituck County High School: $72,375 · OtherCurrituck County High SchoolQueen Anne County High School: $71,250 · OtherQueen Anne County High SchoolEaston High School: $64,950 · OtherEaston High SchoolKent Island High School: $56,501 · OtherKent Island High SchoolNorth Caroline High School: $49,720 · OtherNorth Caroline High SchoolNorth Dorchester High School: $42,371 · OtherNorth Dorchester High SchoolSouth Dorchester High School: $40,750 · OtherSouth Dorchester High SchoolSt Michaels High School: $37,721 · OtherSt Michaels High SchoolColonel Richardson High School: $34,750 · OtherColonel Richardson High SchoolWashington High School: $29,500 · OtherTalbot Paramedic Foundation: $25,000 · OtherThe County Commissioners for Kent C: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,890 · OtherCAROLINE COUNTY YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$555,778Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAROLINE COUNTY YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds CAROLINE COUNTY YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Knapp Educational Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knapp Educational Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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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    Find your warmest path to Knapp Educational Fund Inc 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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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