· Private foundation
Knipp Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN SADDLEBRED HORSE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC | $18,714 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,246 |
| SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $4,853 |
| AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION | $3,744 |
| NEXUS EQUINE | $1,035 |
| FOUNDING FATHERS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BIG D CHARITY | $500 |
| STRIDES TO SUCCESS | $300 |
| ST ANDREWS CHURCH | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HOHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC6× · 2018–2023 · $52k · revenue +12%
- JCJEFFERSON CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $17k · revenue +228%
- JCJEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCA3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- COCITY OF ASHLAND PARKS AND RECREATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k
- TOTIGERS ON THE PROWL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $900 · revenue +100%
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
The missouri alliance for animal legislation is a non-profit organization lobbying full time to bring positive change for animals through the legislative process. our efforts are combined with the actions of concerned individuals, other…
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
The mission of the missouri alliance for animals is to protect animals from abuse, neglect and inhumane treatment and to promote the welfare of animals through advocacy, education, research and investigations, promotion of humane public…
To advocate for humane treatment of all animals and encourage spaying and neutering to decrease overpopulation of domestic animals.
To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
Ensuring humane treatment of animals and providing animal welfare and control services to boone, boone county and surrounding communities
Present the interests of abused and negleced children in court proceedings in franklin county, mo, gasconade county, mo, and osage county, mo by providing advocacy with volunteers.
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Missouri United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fabenco Founding Fathers Fdn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CITY AREA YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOONE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHENS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEXUS EQUINE INC ↗
- Who funds TIGERS ON THE PROWL INC ↗
- Who funds Burrell Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HACKNEY HORSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FABENCO FOUNDING FATHERS FDN ↗
- Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE EDUCATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI CASA ↗
- Who funds THE HEART THAT GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY EXPOSITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GP MADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Boone County Community Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Psalm 103 Family Foundation · Miller Family Foundation Inc · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Central Mo · Boone Electric Community Trust · Edward Jones Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 organization Knipp Family 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.
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 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.