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Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation at a glance

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Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$296k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$501kHealth$349kReligion$338kPhilanthropy$213kEnvironment$155kYouth Development$120kHuman Services$115kArts & Culture$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $205k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UL LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA$25,000
DELL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$20,000
DIOCESE OF LAKE CHARLES$15,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$15,000
ST THOMAS MORE CAP CAMPAIGN$15,000
BOY SCOUTS OF ACADIANA$10,000
HOUSTON TRI DELTA PHILANTHROPIES$10,000
ST MARY EARLY LEARNING CENTER$10,000
CATHEDRAL CARMEL FOUNDATION$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
OUR LADY OF FATIMA FOUNDATION$10,000
STRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPATORY$10,000
LOURDES FDN INC$10,000
ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $2k → 17%MADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $2k → 17%DEPELCHIN CHILDRENS CENTER: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 45 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
19

Total granted

$1.7M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+39%

Still filing today

49%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +99%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $105k · revenue +12%
  • LF
    Lourdes Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • EA
    EVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -34%
  • UO
    UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +122%
  • AS
    ACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

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…

Health
2
Lsu Alumni Association

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…

—
3
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
4
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
5
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
6
Lafayette College

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…

Education
7
Lsu Alumni Federation-Greater Houston Ch

Provide financial support to academic programs and student scholarships to Louisiana State University through various fundraising efforts.

Education
8
Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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9
University of New Orleans Foundation

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…

Education
10
University of Louisville Physicians Inc

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…

Health
11
Loyola University

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…

Education
12
Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lourdes Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DIOCESE OF LAKE CHARLES: $240,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF LAKE CHARLESST THOMAS MORE CAP CAMPAIGN: $110,000 · OtherST THOMAS MORE CAP CAMPAIGNUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $105,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONDELL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $90,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBOY SCOUTS OF ACADIANA: $85,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF ACADIANASTRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPATORY: $85,000 · OtherSTRAKE JESUIT COLLEGE PREPATORYLourdes Foundation Inc: $79,738 · OtherLourdes Foundation IncUL LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+45 more: $588,790 · Other+45 moreCommunity Foundation of Acadiana: $153,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyDucks Unlimited Inc: $117,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $37,500 · EnvironmentST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 · HealthLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $20,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $15,000 · HealthSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $12,500 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthThe Brookwood Community Inc: $30,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF MUSIC ACADIANA INC: $25,000 · EducationUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationRAGIN CAJUNS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsLafayette Central Park Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsJOE LITTLE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsFESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE: $26,500 · Arts & CultureACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,433,528Philanthropy$156,000Environment$154,500Health$93,500Education$81,500Recreation & Sports$62,000Arts & Culture$40,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Foundation of Acadiana: $153,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $117,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $105,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetLourdes Foundation Inc: $79,738 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetONE ACADIANA INC: $47,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOUR LADY OF FATIMA FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE: $26,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF MUSIC ACADIANA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetLafayette Central Park Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON TRIDELTA PHILANTHROPIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCATHEDRAL CARMEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REFINERY MISSION: $15,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKY HIGH FOR KIDS INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAcadiana Animal Aid: $12,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOE LITTLE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetLAFAYETTE FOUNDATION ON AGING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetThe Junior League of Houston Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAFAYETTE INC: $4,790 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADDIE'S FOOTPRINTS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEX-STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION OF UT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MUSIC ACADIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Lafayette Central Park Inc ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Mills Family Foundati…Pinhook Foundation IncZuschlag Family Found…Haynie Family Foundat…Greater Houston Commu…James D Moncus Family…Martial F Billeaud Sr…The Rucks Family Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…Billy & Clara Mosing …William C Schumacher …
Community Foundation of AcadianaLA37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Knight Family Foundation Formerly the Eddy Knight Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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