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Knee Family Foundation at a glance

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Knee Family Foundation

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.

$953k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.1MHealth$538kPhilanthropy$256kReligion$51kRecreation & Sports$50kAnimals$48kInternational$27kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WVU FOUNDATION$550,000
ST FRANCIS UNIVERSITY$200,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
EMPOWERS AFRICA$25,000
XAVIER COLLEGE PREP$12,500
CENTER FOR GREAT APES$8,000
SHAY'S WARRIORS$5,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 11%DESERT BEST FRIENDS CLOSET: $5k → 11%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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
WV
VA
AZ
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 7 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$4.4M
$499k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+17%

Still filing today

57%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +15%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +23%
  • CF
    Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $48k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +66%
  • TC
    THE CHARLES HOCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -50%
  • WD
    We Defygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +99%
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
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
2
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
3
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Conquer cancer funds research for every type of cancer to benefit every patient, everywhere. working in collaboration with a global network of top scientists and clinicians, and leading advocacy and research organizations, conquer cancer…

Health
4
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
5
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
8
Usc Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation

To raise funds in order to support the operation of the usc verdugo hills hospital, an organization exempt under irc 501(c)(3).

Health
9
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
10
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
11
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia University Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Charles Hoch Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $1,900,000 · EducationSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITYWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,850,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $200,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationEISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherEISENHOWER M…THE CHARLES HOCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE CHARLES …XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY ROMAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL PHOENIX: $50,000 · OtherXAVIER COLLE…SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherSETON HALL U…CARMELITE SISTERS OF THE MOST SACRED HEART: $40,000 · OtherCARMELITE SI…ALPHA RESOURCE CENTER: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $56,000 · Other+8 moreEisenhower Medical Center: $200,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Health+3 more: $7,500 · HealthDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $205,500 · PhilanthropyTIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWe Defy: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $48,000 · AnimalsEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $25,000 · International
Education$3,960,000Other$566,000Health$227,500Philanthropy$215,500Recreation & Sports$50,000Animals$48,000International$25,000

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 budgetSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY: $1,900,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,850,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $205,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHARLES HOCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWe Defy: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $48,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWATTS LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Force USA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHAYS WARRIORS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Knee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 28 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home