· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRACE CHURCH OF BETHLEHEM | $6,000 |
| STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,000 |
| THE BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON | $1,000 |
| OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTE | $1,000 |
| KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| ST GEORGE ANTICHIAN ORTHODOX | $700 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| KNAUSS HOMESTEAD PRESERVATION | $500 |
| USO | $500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- KUKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- OFOUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTEone grant, 2025 · $1k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2025 · $500 · revenue 0%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2025 · $500 · revenue 0%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STATE THEATRE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BACH CHOIR OF BETHLEHEM ↗
- Who funds KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON 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 Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R Richard Knauss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R Richard Knauss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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