Oregon · Private foundation
Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips
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.
- $227M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $182,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.5B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $227M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $128M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $201M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $118M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $41M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $60M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $40M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Oregon Foundation | $623,031,098 | 7 | 60% |
| Providence St Vincent Medical Foundation | $50,000,000 | 4 | 42% |
| Albina Head Start Inc | $20,000,000 | 3 | 33% |
| 1803 Fund | $8,500,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Blue Meridian Partners Inc | $7,134,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Brookings Institution | $6,000,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $5,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Fanconi Cancer Foundation | $3,000,000 | 3 | 32% |
| The Phoenix Center Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Mary's Home | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($90M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips with peer funders
About Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips
- How much does Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips give?
- Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips reported 9 grants totaling $226,548,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (82%), Health (13%), Community Improvement (1%).
- Who are Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Oregon Foundation ($623M), Providence St Vincent Medical Foundation ($50M), Albina Head Start Inc ($20M).
- Does Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips based?
- Knight Foundation Attn Lisa McKillips is based in OR.
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