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Knoph Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Housing & Shelter$214kEducation$151kFood & Nutrition$50kYouth Development$46kPhilanthropy$45kEmployment$36kRecreation & Sports$22kHealth$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$25,000
WELD FOOD BANK$20,000
UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY$20,000
UNC FOUNDATION- GOLF RENOVATION FUN$10,000
FRONTIER HOUSE$10,000
ALS-ROCKY MTN CHAPTER$10,000
GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE$6,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CO$5,000
GREELEY BLUES JAM$5,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$3,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE VALLEY$2,500
ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL SCOUTING AME$2,500
UNC FOUNDATION- CANCER REHAB$2,500
WOMEN'S FUND OF WELD COUNTY$2,000
NORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER$1,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE 3000 CLUB: $2k → 11%SOLDIER'S BEST FRIEND: $773 → 11%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $5k → 9%SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES: $3k → 9%60 RIDE: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$330k · 9 repeat orgs$293k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$330k
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

56%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • TS
    The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +127%
  • WF
    WELD FOOD BANK
    5× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +11%
  • GT
    GREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE
    2× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS OF WELD COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • UA
    UNC ATHLETICS- MENS GOLF UP DOWN CL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

1
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
4
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
5
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
6
Better Business Bureau Serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming Foundation

Advocate for trust in the marketplace through education, empowerment, recognition, and research of ethical practices with bbb accredited businesses, future accredited business owners, and consumers.

7
Urban Land Conservancy

Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.

Community Improvement
8
National Grazing Lands Coalition

Provide voluntary ecologically and economically sound management of all grazing lands for their adaptive uses and multiple benefits to the environment and society through science-based technical assistance, research, and education.

Environment
9
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

10
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

11
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
12
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greeley Blues Jam. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts EducationYouth Amateur Sports Progra…Hospital & Health System Fo…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Family Housing Support Serv…Senior Affordable HousingCommunity Food Justice Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%15%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr14%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%81%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr14%1%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
16%
9,067/57,500

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.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $200,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTFRONTIER HOUSE — $36,000 · OtherFRONTIER HOUSEBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $35,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBWELD COUNTY UNITED WAY — $25,000 · OtherWELD COUNTY UNITED WAYALS-ROCKY MTN CHAPTER — $13,500 · OtherALS-ROCKY MTN CHAPTERGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE — $11,000 · OtherGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GR…UNC FOUNDATION- GOLF RENOVATION FUN — $10,000 · OtherUNC FOUNDATION- GOLF RENOVATION F…+26 more — $55,173 · Other+26 moreThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc — $150,000 · EducationThe Success Foundation Serv…+2 more — $1,200 · EducationWELD FOOD BANK — $47,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $600 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropySENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE 3000 CLUB — $1,500 · Human ServicesSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND — $773 · Human ServicesGreeley Blues Jam — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Public Benefit$200,000Other$185,673Education$151,200Food & Nutrition$48,100Philanthropy$20,000Human Services$12,273Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $200,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc — $150,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetWELD FOOD BANK — $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES — $10,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGreeley Blues Jam — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $1,554 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $1,523 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBallyneal Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS BEST FRIEND — $773 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT
  • Who funds The Success Foundation Serving Greeley-Evans Schools Inc
  • Who funds WELD FOOD BANK
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WELD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds GREELEY TRANSITIONAL HOUSE DBA GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE
  • Who funds SENIOR RESOURCE SERVICES
  • Who funds Greeley Blues Jam
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE
  • Who funds ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Teen Lifeline Inc
  • Who funds THE 3000 CLUB
  • Who funds NORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER
  • Who funds Ballyneal Foundation
  • Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND
  • Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Feeding America

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.

Weld Community FoundationCO19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Weld Community Foundation · The Weld Trust · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Monfort Family Foundation · Tointon Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Wenaas Family Foundation · Weld Legacy Foundation · American Express Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Knoph 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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