· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ST JOHN THE DIVINE GREEK ORTH CH | $7,500 |
| FIRST PRES CHURCH FERNANDINA BEACH | $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 |
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 (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. 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 +5% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 43 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Calvin and Orsula Knowlton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Calvin and Orsula Knowlton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc: 32% of income from government
How this is measured
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