· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| GABI'S POWERED BY SPECIAL ABILITIES | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RALEIGH | $2,500 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,500 |
| BLOOD CANCER UNITED | $2,500 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| OPERATION RESOLUTE INC | $2,000 |
| INTERACT | $2,000 |
| PRESTON ROBERT TISCH BRAIN TUMOR CENTER | $1,500 |
| ST ANDREW THE APOSTLE | $1,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LTLAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES7× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +634%
THE CARYING PLACE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue ×16- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE3× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CPCARING PLACE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ACALLEN CREEK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- TNTHE NORTH CAROLINA THEATREone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -15%
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.
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…
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 84 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 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 THE NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READ AND FEED ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- St Michael's School and Nursery Inc: 48% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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