Pennsylvania · Private foundation
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.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $323k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations R Richard Knauss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $25k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $18k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $14k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $15k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $12k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bach Choir of Bethlehem | $6,845 | 6 | 0% |
| Kutztown University Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Home of Easton Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project of Easton Inc | $1,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Allentown Rescue Mission Inc | $1,108 | 3 | 0% |
| The Knauss Homestead Preservation Society | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of the Nations Kona Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $700 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bach Choir of Bethlehem | $6,845 | 6 | 0% |
| Kutztown University Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Home of Easton Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project of Easton Inc | $1,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Allentown Rescue Mission Inc | $1,108 | 3 | 0% |
| The Knauss Homestead Preservation Society | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of the Nations Kona Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Father Flanagan's Boys' Home | $700 | 2 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $700 | 2 | 0% |
| Covenant House Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| St Labre Indian School | $500 | 2 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Hope of Easton | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| St Josephs Indian School | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $380 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget R Richard Knauss Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About R Richard Knauss Foundation
- How much does R Richard Knauss Foundation give?
- R Richard Knauss Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $25,858 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does R Richard Knauss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are R Richard Knauss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: State Theatre Center for the Arts Inc ($7k), Bach Choir of Bethlehem ($7k), Kutztown University Foundation Inc ($6k).
- Does R Richard Knauss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does R Richard Knauss Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as R Richard Knauss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation, Lehigh Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is R Richard Knauss Foundation based?
- R Richard Knauss Foundation is based in PA.
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