· Private foundation
Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of KNIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION FORMERLY THE EDDY KNIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UL LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA | $25,000 |
| DELL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| DIOCESE OF LAKE CHARLES | $15,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE CAP CAMPAIGN | $15,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $15,000 |
| LOURDES FDN INC | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON TRI DELTA PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF ACADIANA | $10,000 |
| STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPATORY | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF FATIMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST MARY EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CARMEL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +99%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2023 · $105k · revenue +12%
- LFLourdes Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- UOUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +122%
- EAEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -34%
- ASACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
Provide financial support to academic programs and student scholarships to Louisiana State University through various fundraising efforts.
To promote architecture.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
Provide professional medical services in a variety of medical specialties and disciplines in accordance with the corporation's charitable mission: strengthen and broaden the range of skills and patient populations available for physicians…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lourdes Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Refinery Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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 74 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 Community Foundation of Acadiana ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lourdes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF FATIMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUSIC ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Lafayette Central Park Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL CARMEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE REFINERY MISSION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Animal Aid ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Mills Family Foundation Inc · Pinhook Foundation Inc · Zuschlag Family Foundation · Haynie Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · James D Moncus Family Foundation · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · The Rucks Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Billy & Clara Mosing Foundation · William C Schumacher Family 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 Formerly the Eddy 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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