How much does Knight Impact Partners give?

Knight Impact Partners reported 32 grants totaling $5,072,149 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Knight Impact Partners fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (37%), Community Improvement (11%), Recreation & Sports (10%).

Who are Knight Impact Partners's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: One Acre Fund ($4.8M), Northwestern University ($1.3M), Inner-City Muslim Action Network ($1.0M).

Does Knight Impact Partners fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Knight Impact Partners 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 Impact Partners?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.

Where is Knight Impact Partners based?

Knight Impact Partners is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Knight Impact Partners

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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 32
Grants FY2024: 13
Organizations funded FY2023: 15%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 20; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $24M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Knight Impact Partners funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	31	$5.1M	55%
FY2023	13	$607k	15%
FY2022	18	$1.9M	28%
FY2021	17	$1.5M	12%
FY2020	20	$2.3M	45%
FY2019	14	$1.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$4.8MCommunity Improvement$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MEducation$911kHealth$910kPhilanthropy$825kHousing & Shelter$763kFood & Nutrition$669kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
One Acre Fund	$4,750,000	5	1%
Northwestern University	$1,250,000	5	0%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$1,000,000	1	5%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations	$560,499	1	0%
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation	$500,000	1	10%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$500,000	1	1%
La Casa Norte	$450,000	3	3%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$417,800	6	0%
Junior Achievement of Chicago	$210,000	6	1%
One Million Degrees	$200,000	1	3%

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All grantees of Knight Impact Partners by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
One Acre Fund	$4,750,000	5	1%
Northwestern University	$1,250,000	5	0%
Inner-City Muslim Action Network	$1,000,000	1	5%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations	$560,499	1	0%
City Colleges of Chicago Foundation	$500,000	1	10%
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc	$500,000	1	1%
La Casa Norte	$450,000	3	3%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$417,800	6	0%
Junior Achievement of Chicago	$210,000	6	1%
One Million Degrees	$200,000	1	3%
MAAFA Redemption Project	$200,000	1	9%
The Cara Program	$200,000	1	1%
Hope Chicago Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Nourishing Hope	$150,000	1	1%
Michael Reese Health Trust	$150,000	1	7%
Connections for the Homeless Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Chicago Cares Inc	$150,000	3	1%
By The Hand Club For Kids	$150,000	2	1%
New Life Centers of Chicagoland	$125,000	1	1%
Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc	$100,000	1	1%
The Night Ministry	$100,000	1	1%
Southside Center of Hope	$70,000	6	5%
Madonna Mission	$60,000	6	4%
Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching	$55,000	4	0%
Father Fred Foundation	$55,000	6	1%
All Chicago Making Homelessness History	$55,000	4	0%
AIDS Foundation of Chicago	$50,000	1	0%
The Lyte Collective	$50,000	1	9%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Civic Consulting Alliance	$33,500	2	1%
Women in Need Inc	$32,500	2	0%
Second Baptist Church	$30,000	5	n/a
The Nora Project	$30,000	3	1%
Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Sarah's Circle	$25,000	1	0%
Forefront	$7,036	3	0%
IF Charities	$6,000	1	25%
Free Spirit Media Nfp	$5,000	1	0%
Philanthropy New York Inc	$3,350	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($661k), not named here.

Knight Impact Partners supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

The Chicago Community TrustIL24.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Pritzker Traubert Foundation · The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation · Vivo 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.

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About Knight Impact Partners

How much does Knight Impact Partners give?: Knight Impact Partners reported 32 grants totaling $5,072,149 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Knight Impact Partners fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (37%), Community Improvement (11%), Recreation & Sports (10%).
Who are Knight Impact Partners's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: One Acre Fund ($4.8M), Northwestern University ($1.3M), Inner-City Muslim Action Network ($1.0M).
Does Knight Impact Partners fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Knight Impact Partners 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 Impact Partners?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Robert R McCormick Foundation, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial.
Where is Knight Impact Partners based?: Knight Impact Partners is based in IL.