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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ALS-ROCKY MTN CHAPTER$10,000
UNC FOUNDATION- GOLF RENOVATION FUN$10,000
FRONTIER HOUSE$10,000
GREELEY FAMILY HOUSE$6,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CO$5,000
GREELEY BLUES JAM$5,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$3,000
UNC FOUNDATION- CANCER REHAB$2,500
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE VALLEY$2,500
ADVENTURE WEST COUNCIL SCOUTING AME$2,500
WOMEN'S FUND OF WELD COUNTY$2,000
TEEN LIFELINE INC$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
CA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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%
+17%

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
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.

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 PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue +39%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS OF WELD COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • UA
    UNC ATHLETICS- WOMENS GOLF BIRDIE C
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

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.

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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…

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10
Butte Emergency Food Bank

Provide food for individuals in need

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Weld County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 43 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeen Lifeline Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 NORTHERN COLORADO RUSH SOCCER ↗
  • Who funds THE 3000 CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Teen Lifeline Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ballyneal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UCHEALTH NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOLDIERS BEST FRIEND ↗
  • Who funds THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Knoph Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knoph Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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