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· Private foundation
KNIGHT AID FUND
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$17k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
3
Communities
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of KNIGHT AID FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
—
2019
womenart
2020
museumart
2021
museum
2022
tucson
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
- VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER$3,000
- LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT$3,000
- PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
- FEEDING AMERICA SAN DIEGO$2,000
- PLAN C$2,000
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO$2,000
- INTL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,000
- LAMBDA LEGAL$1,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$122k · 25 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +163% since the first grant, against +127% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
25
13
Total granted
$122k
$7k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+163%
+127%
Still filing today
12%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- VPVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
PORTLAND STREET MEDICINE3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +195%- OMOCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2017–2021 · $741 · revenue +163%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +127%
- WFWILDWOOD FARM SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +128%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Equal Justice Center
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Civil Rights
2
The Oakland Institute
The Oakland Institute (OI) is an independent policy think tank working to increase public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and environmental issues.
Food & Nutrition
3
Earth Law Center Inc
Earth Law Center works to build a global force of advocates for the inherent rights of nature. Earth Law Centers goal is to ensure the laws of all governments recognize and protect the rights of ecosystems and species to exist, thrive, and…
Social Science
4
Oregonians in Action Legal Center
To protect constitutional rights of landowners.
Crime & Legal
5
Environmental Law and Policy Center of
Public interest environmental legal and policy advocacy and eco-business innovation organization working to improve environmental quality and protect our natural heritage.
Environment
6
Center for Environmental Law & Policy
The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.
Environment
7
Civil Liberties Defense Center
CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.
Civil Rights
8
Oregon Physicians for Social
Guided by the values & expertise of healthcare and public health, Oregon PSR works to protect human life from the gravest threats to health and survival
Environment
9
Public Interest Law Initiative
PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.
Crime & Legal
10
Equal Justice Society
The Equal Justice Society is transforming the nation's consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts.
Civil Rights
11
Sexual Violence Law Center
Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services protecting the privacy, safety, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and…
Human Services
12
Wild Orca
Translating science into action to save Southern Resident killer whales from extinction.
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equal Justice Initiative and the most unlike its peers is Wildwood Farm Sanctuary & Preserve. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$107,825Crime & Legal$15,000Health$5,500Community Improvement$3,000Animals$2,000Civil Rights$1,000Arts & Culture$741
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.
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.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA6.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation KNIGHT AID FUND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WILDWOOD FARM SANCTUARY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 461574672 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on WILDWOOD FARM SANCTUARY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Knight Aid Fund?
Find your warmest path to Knight Aid Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines