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Knight 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $393k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATIONFFA FOUNDATION | $40,500 |
| CIRCLE THE CITY | $40,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TN | $35,000 |
| ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS | $30,000 |
| THE UTAH 1033 FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| ENCIRCLE | $29,000 |
| PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL SNAFFLE BIT ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $19,500 |
| LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP (LEAP) | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| DAVIS HOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $410k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- TATHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2024 · $278k · revenue +45%
- BGBATTLE GROUND ACADEMY3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +21%
- CTCIRCLE THE CITY4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $295k
- CTCIRCLE THE CITYone grant, 2020 · $134k
- IFINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k
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.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
We guide families of the uniformed services, including those of the deployed, wounded and fallen, through stressful times by providing children's and family programs, financial help, advice, and advocacy.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.
Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Franklin Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 99 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 THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION FFA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH 1033 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SNAFFLE BIT ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds USANA KIDS EAT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Utah Medical Association Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Denver Foundation · Synchrony 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 Knight 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 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.
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