· Private foundation
Samuel & Katie Knouse Ta
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 FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SHEPHERD HOME | $785 |
| FRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER | $785 |
| BOYERTOWN SR HIGH SCHOOL BAND | $785 |
| TOWER HEALTH AT HOME | $785 |
| BOYERTOWN AREA UNITED WAY | $588 |
| KEYSTONE STEAM FIRE CO #1 | $392 |
| BOYERTOWN TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $392 |
| BOYERTOWN COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVI | $392 |
| LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES | $392 |
| BOYERTOWN FAIRVIEW CEM MAUSOLEUM | $197 |
| MASONIC HOMES | $197 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $98 |
| THE LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $98 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $98 |
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 (FY25–25, $392) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD HOME2× · 2024–2025 · $2k
- BSBOYERTOWN SR HIGH SCHOOL BAND2× · 2024–2025 · $2k
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER CO #1 INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- THTOWER HEALTH AT HOMEone grant, 2024 · $762 · revenue -75%
- LSLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EASTone grant, 2024 · $380 · 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.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
We heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.life st. mary is a member of trinity health pace and trinity health.
Provide health and social services appropriate to meet the needs of individuals and families at their place of residence.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity continuing care services (d/b/a trinity health senior…
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.
We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.
To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tower Health At Home Fka Tower Health At Home - Berks and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 16 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 FRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER CO #1 INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - BERKS ↗
- Who funds BOYERTOWN LIONS COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER HEALTH AT HOME ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Samuel & Katie Knouse Ta 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.