· Public charity
Knight-Swift Charitable Foundation
The Foundation builds charitable capital for those in need, making philanthropic grants and providing volunteer services that contribute to the socioeconomic health and vitality of the communities in which Knight-Swift and its employees live, serve and work.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK | $102,066 |
| PATSY REEVE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SVCS | $10,000 |
| FRESH START WOMENS FNDN | $10,000 |
| TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING | $10,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $6,365 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHILDRENS MIRACLE NETWORK4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue -4%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SVCS3× · 2021–2024 · $51k
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
- UFUTAH FOOD FOR FAMILIESone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
Goodwill Industries of Southern Arizona works toward ensuring that all people have the opportunity to reach their potential and contribute to our community. Through quality, evidence-based, workforce development programs; Goodwill…
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
The mission of arizona's children association is to protect children, empower youth, and strengthen families.
Southwest human development strengthens the foundation arizona's children need for a great start in life.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Aatn is a statewide resource that exists to bring solutions to the very real problem of sex and human trafficking in arizona. creating awareness, researching, and training in the most current anti-trafficking methods is the work of aatn…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PATSY REEVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS ARIZONA INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds Widows Harvest Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knight-Swift Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knight-Swift Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Truckers Against Trafficking: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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