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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION$50,000
ST PAUL ACADEMY & SUMMIT SCHOOL$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
NANTUCKET ATHENEUM$10,000
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION$10,000
WALKER ART CENTER$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF DSG$10,000
MOMA PS1$10,000
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$9,000
ST PAUL'S CHURCH IN NANTUCKET$5,000
02The need
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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 (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. Its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

+46%
+25%

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
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

  • 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%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 84 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
46/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $90,000 · EducationTrustees of D…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 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 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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $90,000 over 5y, 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 budgetThe Family Partnership: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF DESIGN: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $17,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 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 budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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
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.

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.

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

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 Knox Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knox Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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