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The Charles F and Ruth J Knippenberg Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Charles F and Ruth J Knippenberg 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.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$313kEducation$304kHealth$265kReligion$195kRecreation & Sports$114kHousing & Shelter$100kAnimals$80kPhilanthropy$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $129k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$17,500
MOTHERS GRACE$16,000
PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL$15,500
TURNING POINT USA$10,412
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PROJECT HORSES$10,000
ST PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$10,000
CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE$10,000
ATLAS$10,000
OASIS$10,000
PILOTS TO THE RESCUE$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,125
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$5,000
NOURISH PHOENIX$5,000
AZ SMALL DOG RESCUE$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $10k → 11%OASIS: $10k → 12%WILLING WARRIORS: $5k → 7%COMFORT CASES: $8k → 8%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $5k → 11%CHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 14%OASIS: $10k → 12%NOURISH PHOENIX: $5k → 11%OASIS: $10k → 12%OASIS: $10k → 12%OASIS: $10k → 12%LOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $2k → 4%OASIS: $10k → 12%CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE: $10k → 11%OASIS: $10k → 12%OASIS: $10k → 12%TIN CUP FUND: $5k → 4%MOTHERS GRACE: $25k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $21k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $20k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $18k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $16k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $15k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $15k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $15k → 11%MOTHERS GRACE: $10k → 11%ARIZONA SUNSHINE ANGELS: $5k → 11%THE SINGLETONS: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
$1.2M · 40 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
36

Total granted

$1.2M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MG
    MOTHER'S GRACE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +125%
  • PC
    PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +26%
  • OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +2%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +31%
  • ET
    EQUINE TRANQUILITY WELLNESS CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
2
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
3
Calvary Hospital Inc

The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…

Health
4
Covenant Hospital Hobbs

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
5
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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6
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Good Shepherd Hospice Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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9
Mercy Medical Center Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities

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10
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
11
Catholic Palliative Care Services Inc

Catholic palliative care services, inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of catholic hospice, inc. and under the sponsorship of the archdiocese of miami, provides responsive end-of-life care to patients and families in broward and dade…

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12
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network; the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. 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

53 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. 53 of the 92 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
29/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $118,750 · OtherPG CHAMBERS SCHOOLTHE SHELTER: $70,000 · OtherTHE SHELTERHOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherHOLY TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHST BERNADETTE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH SCOTTSDALE: $50,000 · OtherST BERNADETTE ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISH SCOTTSDALEST AGNES CATHOLIC CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherST MARY'S COLLEGE: $36,000 · Other+50 more: $441,479 · Other+50 moreMOTHER'S GRACE: $154,750 · Human ServicesMOTHER'S GRACEOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FOR W…MAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 · Human Services+10 more: $60,200 · Human Services+10 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $111,500 · EducationUniversity of Notr…Project Horse Inc: $76,350 · EducationProject Horse IncTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $63,350 · EducationTHE CRAIG SCHOOL+1 more: $7,492 · EducationCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $17,125 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $14,835 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthTHE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC: $6,000 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthAvow Inc: $5,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $5,000 · HealthMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $37,356 · PhilanthropyNOURISH EVERY CHILD: $22,000 · PhilanthropyCOACH COSTELLO FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyFOREVER LOVED PET SANCTUARY: $17,706 · AnimalsPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $8,240 · AnimalsFOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE: $6,462 · AnimalsFIERCE LOVE RESCUE: $5,000 · AnimalsHEALING TOWERS INC: $25,000 · Religion
Other$806,229Human Services$309,950Education$258,692Health$92,960Philanthropy$62,856Animals$47,408Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMOTHER'S GRACE: $154,750 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetPG CHAMBERS SCHOOL: $118,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $111,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetProject Horse Inc: $76,350 over 6y, 49% of budgetTHE CRAIG SCHOOL: $63,350 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC: $37,356 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING TOWERS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetK2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNOURISH EVERY CHILD: $22,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOREVER LOVED PET SANCTUARY: $17,706 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $17,125 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $14,835 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,412 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Mary's University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON CHANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE 11TH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE INC T/A ELEVENTH HOUR ANIMAL RESCUE: $8,240 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBelmont University: $7,492 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILLS ANIMAL RESCUE: $6,462 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CATOCTIN FOUNDATION dba LOUDOUN FREE CLINIC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetServe Our Willing Warriors: $5,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIN CUP FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe IIIB's Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHICAGO FURNITURE BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA SUNSHINE ANGELS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNOURISHPHX: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SINGLETONS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFILTER OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOACH COSTELLO FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetDTCare: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICING SMILES Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUDOUN CITIZENS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds MOTHER'S GRACE ↗
  • Who funds PG CHAMBERS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Project Horse Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CRAIG SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALING TOWERS INC ↗
  • Who funds K2 ADVENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NOURISH EVERY CHILD ↗
  • Who funds Mane Stream Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOREVER LOVED PET SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAGGIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Arizona Community Fou…American Express Foun…Gannett Foundation IncColten Cowell Foundat…Community Foundation …Thunderbirds CharitiesAssurant FoundationThe Community Foundat…Community Foundation …Baird Foundation IncVerizon FoundationThe Yelp Foundation
Arizona Community FoundationAZ21.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Gannett Foundation Inc · Colten Cowell Foundation · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Thunderbirds Charities · Assurant Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Baird Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Yelp Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charles F and Ruth J Knippenberg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles F and Ruth J Knippenberg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue: 0% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 92 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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