· Private foundation
Knier Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES | $25,250 |
| CARDINAL GIBBONS HIGH SCHOOL | $21,500 |
| THE CARYING PLACE INC | $21,178 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| GABI'S POWERED BY SPECIAL ABILITIES | $5,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RALEIGH | $2,500 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $2,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,500 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| INTERACT | $2,000 |
| OPERATION RESOLUTE INC | $2,000 |
| PRESTON ROBERT TISCH BRAIN TUMOR CENTER | $1,500 |
| ST ANDREW THE APOSTLE | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- LTLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES7× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +634%
THE CARYING PLACE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +337%- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE3× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +42%
Funded once
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +423%- CPCARING PLACE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ACALLEN CREEK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…
To discover treatments and a cure for als and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Our mission is to help families be families by creating custom home modifications for children with special healthcare needs. from sensory and therapy rooms to fully wheelchair-accessible spaces, our home transformations provide safer…
To care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life-changing illness.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed and the most unlike its peers is Kids Who Give Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 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. 47 of the 84 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 LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THE CARYING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds HANDSHAKE COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WAKE CRISIS MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESOLUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PAINT FOR A CURE ↗
- Who funds The Bread of Life Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SAFECHILD ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL AND NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
- Who funds PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Mistler Charitable Trust · Lonnie & Carol Poole Family Foundation · John William Pope 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 Knier Family 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.
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc — 48% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.