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Samuel & Katie Knouse Ta at a glance

· 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$785
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$3kHousing & Shelter$2kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$2kReligion$1kPhilanthropy$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$772Human Services$772
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$392
Median grant
4
States reached
$256k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYERTOWN SR HIGH SCHOOL BAND$785
GOOD SHEPHERD HOME$785
FRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER$785
TOWER HEALTH AT HOME$785
BOYERTOWN AREA UNITED WAY$588
BOYERTOWN TEMPLE ASSOCIATION$392
LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES$392
KEYSTONE STEAM FIRE CO #1$392
BOYERTOWN COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVI$392
BOYERTOWN FAIRVIEW CEM MAUSOLEUM$197
MASONIC HOMES$197
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$98
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$98
THE LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$98
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $392 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 12 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$9k
$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD HOME
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k
  • BS
    BOYERTOWN SR HIGH SCHOOL BAND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k
  • FH
    FRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER CO #1 INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TH
    TOWER HEALTH AT HOME
    one grant, 2024 · $762 · revenue -75%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST
    one grant, 2024 · $380 · 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lutheran Retirement Center Association

To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.

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2
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

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…

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3
Lehigh Valley Health Network

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.

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4
Life St Mary

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.

Health
5
Tower Health At Home - Pottstown

Provide health and social services appropriate to meet the needs of individuals and families at their place of residence.

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6
Loyola University Medical Center

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…

Health
7
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

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.

Health
8
Trinity Continuing Care Services

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…

Health
9
Pocono Health System

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.

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10
The Cole County Lutheran Home Association

To address and meet the needs of aged persons, including housing, healthcare, and financial security.

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11
Loyola University Health System

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.

Health
12
Healthcare Services of the Ozarks Inc

To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tower Health At Home Fka Tower Health At Home - Berks; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOOD SHEPHERD HOME: $1,547 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD HOMEBOYERTOWN SR HIGH SCHOOL BAND: $1,547 · OtherBOYERTOWN SR HIGH SCHOOL BANDBOYERTOWN AREA UNITED WAY: $1,158 · OtherBOYERTOWN AREA UNITED WAYKEYSTONE STEAM FIRE CO #1: $772 · OtherKEYSTONE STEAM FIRE CO #1BOYERTOWN TEMPLE ASSOCIATION: $772 · OtherBOYERTOWN TEMPLE ASSOCIATIONTOWER HEALTH AT HOME: $762 · OtherTOWER HEALTH AT HOMEMASONIC HOMES: $388 · OtherBOYERTOWN FAIRVIEW CEM MAUSOLEUM: $388 · Other+1 more: $193 · OtherTOWER HEALTH AT HOME FKA TOWER HEALTH AT HOME - BERKS: $785 · HealthTOWER HEALTH AT HO…BOYERTOWN LIONS COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $772 · HealthBOYERTOWN LIONS CO…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $193 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSO…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $193 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SO…FRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER CO #1 INC: $1,547 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDSHIP HOO…LUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES: $392 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: $380 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,527Health$1,943Recreation & Sports$1,547Human Services$392Housing & Shelter$380

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER CO #1 INC: $1,547 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYERTOWN LIONS COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $772 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIOR SERVICES EAST: $380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $193 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $193 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Samuel & Katie Knouse Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samuel & Katie Knouse Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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