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Knapp Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Knapp Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Our Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Knapp Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $60k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $16,667 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNTY | $8,375 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| TOWN OF VAIL | $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 (FY17–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- EFEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY2× · 2018–2019 · $15k · revenue +843%
- CMCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +42%
- FFFULFILLMENT FUND2× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue -18%
Funded once
- YYOUTHPOWER365graduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +65%
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.
Elevating health across our mountain communities.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Enhancing community efforts to obtain, maintain and retain the primary healthcare workforce in southern vermont.
Valley vision is a civic leadership organization dedicated to improving the livability of the sacramento region. through research and action, we collaborate on bold, long-term solutions that improve people's lives.
Founded in 2007, sierra harvest is building a community that values and eats an abundance of fresh, local, seasonal food; training successful local farmers that are increasing sustainable food production; and creating equitable access to…
Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…
Nourish colorado is a statewide nonprofit organization committed to strengthening connections between farms and communities so that all coloradans have equitable access to fresh, nutritious foods. we pursue systemic changes through state…
The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.
The cherry creek schools foundation's mission is to enhance the educational experience and whole wellbeing of cherry creek school district students, staff, and families through community support that provides inclusive and innovative…
To partner with the community to help children succeed in school and prevent student drop-out for students in greeley evans school district 6.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is YOUTHPOWER365 and the most unlike its peers is Stone Barns Restoration Corp Dba Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Stone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Kelton Family Foundation
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 Knapp Foundation 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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