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R Richard Knauss 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE CHURCH OF BETHLEHEM | $6,000 |
| STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,500 |
| THE BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM | $1,500 |
| KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTE | $1,000 |
| ST GEORGE ANTICHIAN ORTHODOX | $700 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| SHRINER'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $500 |
| YWAM UNIVERSITY OF NATIONS | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- STSTATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +36%
- BCBACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- OFOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTEone grant, 2025 · $1k
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2025 · $500 · revenue 0%- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2025 · $500 · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KNAUSS HOMESTEAD PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE NATIONS KONA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation · Butz Foundation · The Lehigh Gas Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 R Richard Knauss 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.
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.
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