· Private foundation
Tara & Jim Knicos 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKES UNIV HEALTH NETWORK | $100,000 |
| ANIMAL FOOD BANK OF THE LEHIGH VALL | $75,000 |
| BETHLEHEM AQUATIC CLUB | $70,000 |
| A CHANNEL OF PEACE | $25,000 |
| ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +39%
- COCircle of Seasons Charter School4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +111%
- CDCHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +2%
- PAPARKLAND AQUATIC CLUB INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Golf instruction & clinics for youth, handicapping services
To provide recreational, educational & social activities for the community & to foster & encourage good health habits, good sportsmanship & civic standards through the sport of rowing.
The Bucks County Horse Park, Inc. part of the Bucks County Park System, is a unique facility dedicated to the preservation of natural environment for amateur equestrian pursuits. Located in Revere Pennsylvania, we provide a variety of…
Provide girls in the community an opportunity to build teamwork and sportsmanship qualities while playing sports in a competitive atmosphere.
Social activities among members
Provided scholarships and program opportunities to Girl Scouts in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Free 1 week overnight camp for boys and girls ages 11-13 free 1 day camp for special needs individuals of any age
Teaching swimming and water safety to school age children in the lancaster, pa area.
An inclusive, fun, girl-empowerment program that builds resilience through creatively combining social, emotional, and physical health with movement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund to Benefit Children and Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is Allentown Symphony Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 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 FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD REHABILITATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Circle of Seasons Charter School ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND AQUATIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUND TO BENEFIT CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BUCKS ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKS WOMEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LEGACY TRAIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP PAPILLON ANIMAL SHELTER 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: Ppl Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tara & Jim Knicos 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.