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Knox Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$548k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$652kArts & Culture$618kEducation$408kPhilanthropy$210kScience & Tech$165kHuman Services$96kEnvironment$86kReligion$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$150,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET$50,000
ST PAUL ACADEMY & SUMMIT SCHOOL$50,000
MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION$50,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION (HHEI$25,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$20,000
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART$11,700
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION$10,000
NANTUCKET ATHENEUM$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DSG$10,000
WALKER ART CENTER$10,000
MOMA PS1$10,000
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$9,000
ST PAUL'S CHURCH IN NANTUCKET$5,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $1k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%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

ME
NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
FL

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 52 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
16

Total granted

$2.0M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+15%

Still filing today

75%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $211k · revenue +15%
  • NM
    NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +120%
  • WA
    WALKER ART CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +471%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • NY
    NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
4
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
11
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is The Linda Loring Nature Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …United Way AffiliatesAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Community Arts Centers
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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr18%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%15%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr18%46%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/56
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,933

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

52 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. 52 of the 84 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
45/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $426,136 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN — $155,000 · OtherNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION INNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC — $50,000 · Other+45 more — $503,000 · Other+45 moreWALKER ART CENTER — $105,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTERTHE BRICK — $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRICKMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $51,700 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF…National Gallery of Art — $40,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Ar…ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM O…NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $39,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET HISTORICAL A…COMPAS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Minnesota Opera — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $62,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College — $90,000 · EducationTrustees of D…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL — $70,000 · EducationST PAUL ACADE…CONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT C…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF T…University of Chicago — $10,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $210,500 · HealthPLANNED P…SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $88,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAU…Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $80,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity…NANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 · PhilanthropyNANTUCKET…CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentThe Family Partnership — $25,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $6,000 · Human Services
Other$1,134,136Arts & Culture$480,200Education$300,000Health$210,500Philanthropy$206,000Environment$81,000Human Services$51,000

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $210,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN — $155,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $88,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BRICK — $70,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $51,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNational Gallery of Art — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $39,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF DESIGN — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $17,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera — $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LINDA LORING NATURE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVOCALESSENCE — $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BIRD ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE LA — $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Peravid Foundation Ag…Community Foundation …The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Charina Foundation In…Ernst & Elfriede Fran…The McKnight Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…The Arzak Foundation …Gilbert Verney Founda…King Spruce CompanyCarverdelaney Familie…
Peravid Foundation AgencyWI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Peravid Foundation Agency · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Arzak Foundation Ms Susan R Shapiro · Gilbert Verney Foundation · King Spruce Company · Carverdelaney Families 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 Knox 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
16report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Knox Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Knox Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines