How much does Knowledgeworks Foundation give?

Knowledgeworks Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $509,500, out of $528,140 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Knowledgeworks Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Education (31%), Employment (8%).

Who are Knowledgeworks Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: StriveTogether Inc ($8.5M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($1.2M), Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ($1.2M).

Does Knowledgeworks Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Knowledgeworks Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, StriveTogether Inc.

Where is Knowledgeworks Foundation based?

Knowledgeworks Foundation is based in OH.

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Ohio · Public charity

Knowledgeworks Foundation

We help our partners in states and schools work together to align policy and practice, reimagining what education can do through personalized, competency-based learning - and what it must do to prepare students for a lifetime of learning.

$528k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 7
Itemized grants FY2025: 11
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $510k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $230,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Knowledgeworks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesHealthSocial ScienceOther

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
FY2025still arriving	7	$510k	29%
FY2024	11	$645k	18%
FY2023	22	$1.4M	59%
FY2022	17	$1.1M	41%
FY2021	21	$1.2M	52%
FY2020	22	$3.2M	45%
FY2019	16	$1.0M	75%
FY2018	7	$487k	57%

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What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$9.8MEducation$6.4MEmployment$1.7MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$685kSocial Science$671kYouth Development$317kCivil Rights$36kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
StriveTogether Inc	$8,451,263	1	n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$1,175,459	3	0%
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati	$1,160,396	1	3%
Wested	$870,969	4	n/a
Jobs for the Future Inc	$815,250	7	0%
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc	$737,250	7	30%
Every Child Succeeds	$465,000	2	5%
Furman University	$352,657	4	0%
Bard College	$305,250	6	0%
Cincinnati City School District	$268,790	3	n/a

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All grantees of Knowledgeworks Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
StriveTogether Inc	$8,451,263	1	n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$1,175,459	3	0%
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati	$1,160,396	1	3%
Wested	$870,969	4	n/a
Jobs for the Future Inc	$815,250	7	0%
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc	$737,250	7	30%
Every Child Succeeds	$465,000	2	5%
Furman University	$352,657	4	0%
Bard College	$305,250	6	0%
Cincinnati City School District	$268,790	3	n/a
Summit Education Initiative	$238,390	4	7%
Building 21	$230,000	1	6%
National Career Technical Education Foundation	$228,000	5	4%
New York University	$220,000	2	0%
High Tech High Graduate School of Education	$220,000	2	3%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati	$219,500	3	0%
Middle College High School National Consortium Inc	$207,000	6	26%
Achieving the Dream Inc	$178,250	4	0%
Learn to Earn Dayton	$173,086	2	8%
Clarendon County School District 1	$166,175	1	n/a
Research for Action Inc	$160,000	2	2%
Seeding Success	$155,000	1	11%
Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Inc	$150,000	2	1%
United Way of Racine County Inc	$150,000	1	3%
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc	$150,000	2	3%
Rowan University Foundation Inc	$140,000	2	0%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$139,383	1	0%
Council of Chief State School Officers	$99,000	1	0%
All Hands Raised	$96,500	1	2%
Roger Williams University	$89,200	2	0%
Spartanburg Academic Movement	$78,500	1	36%
The Jones Family Foundation	$76,000	1	7%
Community Center for Education Results	$75,000	1	3%
Colleton County School District	$71,026	1	n/a
Muskingum Valley Educational Service Center	$66,000	2	n/a
North American Council for Online Learning	$65,000	3	1%
College Now Greater Cleveland Inc	$61,000	2	0%
Stark Education Partnership Inc	$61,000	2	11%
Kentucky Student Voice Team Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Education Commission of the States	$45,000	3	0%
Children's Defense Fund	$35,550	1	0%
INTERalliance of Greater Cincinnati	$31,000	2	3%
Rhode Island College Foundation	$27,000	2	1%
Getting Smart Collective	$26,876	1	10%
Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College	$25,000	1	n/a
Oklahoma College Assistance Program	$25,000	1	n/a
Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio	$25,000	1	n/a
Rodel Charitable Foundation - De	$25,000	1	0%
Battelle for Kids	$25,000	1	0%
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution	$25,000	1	0%
Commonwealth of Kentucky	$25,000	1	n/a
Illinois Community College Board	$25,000	1	n/a
Metropolitan Regional Career & Tech Center	$25,000	1	n/a
Yuma Union High School District	$21,500	1	n/a
Kjzzkbaq (Through Maricopa Community Colleges)	$21,179	1	n/a
Springfield International Charter School	$20,000	1	n/a
Winton Woods City School District	$20,000	1	n/a
Teach for America Inc	$20,000	1	0%
The Big Picture Company	$15,000	1	0%
Globalminded	$15,000	1	6%
Envision Education Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Great Schools Partnership Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Transcend Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Mastery Transcript Consortium	$15,000	1	1%
Learner-Centered Collaborative	$15,000	1	0%
The National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc	$15,000	1	0%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative	$14,000	1	1%
Eastern Ohio P-16 Partnership for Education	$11,000	1	13%
Mortar Cincinnati	$10,650	1	0%
Mayerson Academy for Human Resources	$10,000	1	0%
Bonds of Union	$10,000	1	n/a
Freestore Foodbank Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Strategic Research and Communication	$10,000	1	1%
The Long Now Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Mightycause Charitable Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Northern Kentucky Education Council Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Northern Kentucky University	$9,500	1	n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$8,000	1	0%
Capital Region Boces	$8,000	1	n/a
De Paul Cristo Rey High School	$8,000	1	n/a
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$8,000	1	0%
Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc	$7,500	1	3%
Cast Inc	$6,750	1	0%
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative	$6,295	1	0%
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts	$6,075	1	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh	$5,125	1	0%

Knowledgeworks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 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 65.

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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.

Gates FoundationWA48.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · StriveTogether Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · New Profit Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Learning Policy Institute · Blue Meridian Partners Inc

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 Knowledgeworks Foundation

How much does Knowledgeworks Foundation give?: Knowledgeworks Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $509,500, out of $528,140 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Knowledgeworks Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (47%), Education (31%), Employment (8%).
Who are Knowledgeworks Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: StriveTogether Inc ($8.5M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($1.2M), Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ($1.2M).
Does Knowledgeworks Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Knowledgeworks Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, StriveTogether Inc.
Where is Knowledgeworks Foundation based?: Knowledgeworks Foundation is based in OH.