Ohio · Private foundation
The David W Knapp Charitable 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 79%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $855
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $855
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 52
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $653k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $27k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $829k | 79% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $41k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 47 | $43k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glaad Inc | $28,493 | 5 | 0% |
| Point Foundation | $28,462 | 5 | 0% |
| Shining Hope for Communities Inc | $28,413 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $28,413 | 5 | 0% |
| Central Asia Institute | $28,393 | 5 | 1% |
| St Martin de Porres Academy Inc | $28,203 | 2 | 1% |
| Easton Mountain Inc | $27,880 | 4 | 0% |
| American Youth Hostels Inc | $26,025 | 2 | 0% |
| Human Rights Campaign Foundation | $25,981 | 2 | 0% |
| National Lgbtq Task Force | $25,977 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Stoddard Family Foundation · The Guilford Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · Yale University · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc
How this is measured
Compare The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation with peer funders
About The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation
- How much does The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation give?
- The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $28,215 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 52 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (27%), Education (12%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Glaad Inc ($28k), Point Foundation ($28k), Shining Hope for Communities Inc ($28k).
- Does The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater New Haven Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
- Where is The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation based?
- The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation is based in OH.
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