North Carolina · 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.
- $129k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Knier Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $128k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $113k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $95k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $98k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $93k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $75k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Toxaway Charities | $180,800 | 7 | 3% |
| Cardinal Gibbons Memorial High School | $77,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Carying Place Inc | $61,891 | 6 | 1% |
| The Miracle League of the Triangle | $20,700 | 3 | 2% |
| Handshake Columbus Inc | $18,745 | 5 | 3% |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh | $15,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Western Wake Crisis Ministry | $13,767 | 4 | 0% |
| Operation Resolute Inc | $13,412 | 4 | 1% |
| Paint for a Cure | $10,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The Bread of Life Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Knier Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Knier Family Foundation
- How much does Knier Family Foundation give?
- Knier Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $128,865 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Knier Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (16%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Knier Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake Toxaway Charities ($181k), Cardinal Gibbons Memorial High School ($77k), The Carying Place Inc ($62k).
- Does Knier Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Knier Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Knier Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Calvin and Kelly Carter Family Foundation.
- Where is Knier Family Foundation based?
- Knier Family Foundation is based in NC.
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