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McKnight Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$121k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Health$214kEducation$210kRecreation & Sports$40kPhilanthropy$10kYouth Development$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$70,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY FD$10,000
LAS VEGAS SCOUT BASEBALL FOUNDATION$5,000
COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC$3,000
LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC$2,000
SMILE TRAIN INC$1,500
OLIVIA CONSTANTS FOUNDATION INC$1,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$1,500
CENTRAL FLORIDA DIRT DOGS INC$1,500
WT WOODSON CREW BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED$1,500
TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION$1,500
BRIDGING VOICE INC$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC$1,500
THE OBSERVER$1,000
OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2k → 13%TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $3k → 23%MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $1k → 13%TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $2k → 23%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1k → 13%TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $500 → 23%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 13%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$502k · 49 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
10

Total granted

$502k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+10%

Still filing today

80%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $185k · revenue +42%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY ASTHMA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +10%
  • LV
    Las Vegas Scout Baseball Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • LL
    LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +82%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -51%
  • AL
    AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -8%

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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
2
Roseman University of Health Sciences

Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…

Education
3
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…

Education
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Nevada Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Cancer research.

Health
6
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
7
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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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation Inc

The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.

Health
12
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Pinecrest Academy of Nevada Cadence. 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 FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community College Foundatio…Animal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 Schools
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%55%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,510

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 61 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
38/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $185,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+8 more — $22,500 · Education+8 moreNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $90,000 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATIONTHE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY ASTHMA — $60,000 · HealthTHE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY ASTHMA+13 more — $36,730 · Health+13 moreLAS VEGAS HIGH HEAT BASEBALL CLUB INC — $10,600 · OtherLAS VEGAS HIGH …FOOTHILL HIGH SCHOOL — $8,000 · OtherFOOTHILL HIGH S…SMILE TRAIN INC — $5,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC — $4,500 · OtherLITTLE LEAGUE B…THE SHADE TREE INC — $4,000 · OtherTHE SHADE TREE …CENTRAL FLORIDA DIRT DOGS INC — $3,000 · OtherLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC — $3,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ — $2,500 · OtherHENDERSON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION — $3,000 · OtherJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $3,500 · OtherDIVERS ALERT NETWORK — $3,000 · Other+14 more — $20,500 · Other+14 moreTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $6,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA — $4,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $3,500 · Human ServicesOLIVIA CONSTANTS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $4,148 · PhilanthropyThe Livestrong Foundation — $1,500 · PhilanthropyLas Vegas Scout Baseball Foundation — $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentCake4kids — $3,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHREE SQUARE — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$207,500Health$186,730Other$70,600Human Services$17,500Philanthropy$16,648Youth Development$12,500Food & Nutrition$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $185,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY ASTHMA — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLas Vegas Scout Baseball Foundation — $6,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVIA CONSTANTS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPinecrest Academy of Nevada Foundation — $5,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCG WOODSON HIGH SCHOOL ROWING BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBRIDGING VOICE INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $4,148 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCake4kids — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLERGISTS FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDIVERS ALERT NETWORK — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENDERSON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNRA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMMUNIZE NEVADA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Observer — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN NEVADA REGION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNLV MEDICINE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Livestrong Foundation — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $1,230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNevada Chapter American Academy of Pediatrics — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA CATTLE DOG RESCUE — $1,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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.

Canarelli Family Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationWynn Resorts Foundati…United Way of Souther…Vegas Golden Knights …Nevada Community Foun…NV Energy Charitable …Speedway Children's C…America's CharitiesThe Mel & Ruth Wolzin…Engelstad Family Foun…Raiders Foundation Nv
Canarelli Family FoundationNV24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canarelli Family Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · America's Charities · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv

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 McKnight 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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 McKnight Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McKnight Family 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 61 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.

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