· Private foundation
The Calvin and Orsula Knowlton Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE CALVIN AND ORSULA KNOWLTON FOUN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $30,093 |
| APHA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $14,252 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $14,139 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY | $13,682 |
| MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY | $12,743 |
| FIRST PRES CHURCH FERNANDINA BEACH | $7,500 |
| ST JOHN THE DIVINE GREEK ORTH CH | $7,500 |
| FIRST PRES CHURCH MOORESTOWN | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA | $4,550 |
| NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA | $3,009 |
| WELLS MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $250 |
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 (FY18–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +5% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- APAMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2022 · $340k · revenue +142%
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education4× · 2019–2022 · $83k · revenue +1%
DICKINSON COLLEGE3× · 2020–2022 · $67k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $12k
- IPIMPACT PHILANTHROPY GROUPone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +1%
- CHCOMMUNITY HOUSE OF MOORESTOWNone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
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…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
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,…
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…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
The mission of the philadelphia county medical society (pcms) is to aggressively advance and support the interests of physicians and their patients. pcms is pennsylvania's premier county medical organization.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Pharmacists Association Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dickinson College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WEST JERSEY CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT PHILANTHROPY GROUP ↗
- Who funds NASSAU COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY IS A FAMILY EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE OF MOORESTOWN NEW JERSEY ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Calvin and Orsula Knowlton Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
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.
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