How much did Knight Foundation grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of Knight Foundation’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.

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $50k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

Eagle Mount$10,000
Bozeman Senior Center$6,000
Gallatin Valley Food Bank$6,000
Soldier's Chapel$6,000
Cancer Support Community$5,000
Heart of the Valley Animal Shelter$4,500
Family Promise of Gallatin Valley$3,000
Big Sky Community Housing Trus$2,500
Warriors and Quiet Waters$2,500
Montana Hope Project$2,000
AWARE$2,000
Morning Star Learning Center$2,000
Wellness in Action$2,000
Gallatin River Task Force$2,000
Big Sky Community Library$1,500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$497k · 24 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$497k

$2k

Still filing today

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

EM
Eagle Mount
8× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +52%
BS
Big Sky Community Organization
8× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +318%
WI
Women in Action
8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +476%

Funded once

OS
Ophir School Library
one grant, 2018 · $1k
H
HRDC
one grant, 2018 · $1k

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.

Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment

Scenic Montana Trails

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Action for Eastern Montana

Action for Eastern Montana is committed to strengthening and enhancing the quality of life within the communities we serve by promoting education, advocacy and dignity for achieving independence.

Human Services

Montana Freshwater Partners Inc

To restore, enhance, and preserve Montana's aquatic resources to maximize their ecological function into the future.

Environment

Flathead Land Trust

Flathead land trust is dedicated to the conservation of northwest montana's land and water through voluntary agreements with private landowners.

Environment

Arts Council of Big Sky

To enrich the big sky community through artistic experiences.

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Montana Budget and Policy Center

To advance responsible tax, budget, and economic policies through credible research and analysis in order to promote opportunity and fairness for all Montanans.

Public Benefit

Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment

Public Land Water Access Association in

The organization's mission is to maintain, restore, and perpetuate public access to the boundaries of all Montana's public lands and waters.

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Big Sky Care Connect

Enhance clinical care in the communities throughout montana.

Health

Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment

Grow Wild Inc

Grow wild works to conserve native species in the upper gallatin watershed through education, habitat restoration, and collaborative land stewardship.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Gallatin Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gallatin River Task Force. 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

10/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$329,560Philanthropy$80,000Environment$47,000Human Services$26,440Health$16,000

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.

Montana Community Foundation IncMT20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Michael D Arneson and Susan H Arneson · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: Women in Action.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 204166176 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 Women in Action, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% 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.

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How do I get to Knight Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Knight Foundation 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.

Knight Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Knight Foundation?

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Knight Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Knight Foundation?

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