· Private foundation
Knapp Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VAIL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $16,667 |
| STONE BARNS CENTER FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE | $10,000 |
| COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE COUNTY | $8,375 |
| TOWN OF VAIL | $5,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND | $5,000 |
| VAIL VETERANS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
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.
To partner with the community to help children succeed in school and prevent student drop-out for students in greeley evans school district 6.
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…
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…
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 9 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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Kelton Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knapp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knapp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Knapp Foundation 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.
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