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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 FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$855
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Civil Rights$267kEducation$119kHuman Services$118kHealth$88kArts & Culture$70kReligion$59kHousing & Shelter$34kInternational$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$855
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER NEW HAVEN$855
NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE$855
ACLU FDN OF CONNECTICUT INC$855
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION$855
CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE$855
AMERICAN YOUTH HOSTELS INC$855
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND$855
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION$855
GUILFORD FOUNDATION$855
SOULFORCE INC$855
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ROWE CAMP CONF$855
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$855
WNET 13$855
NATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL INC$855
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY$855
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $909 → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $850 → 9%HOLDEN VILLAGE: $777 → 9%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $909 → 12%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $850 → 12%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $909 → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $850 → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $777 → 17%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA INC: $25k → 12%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA INC: $855 → 12%NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CTR: $25k → 12%NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CTR: $855 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
MT
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$939k · 70 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
15

Total granted

$939k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+22%

Still filing today

59%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • PF
    POINT FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +108%
  • SH
    SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +89%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • GF
    GUILFORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • HG
    HARTFORD GAY MENS CHORUS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $850 · revenue +141%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Guilford College

To provide a transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace, and simplicity and…

Education
3
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
4
Gay Men's Health Crisis Inc

Over 9,000 clients are served by gmhc's programs each year. gmhc provides a broad array of programs through the efforts of clinicians, trained volunteers, and professional staff who identify undiagnosed cases on hiv, ensure access and…

Health
5
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
6
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
9
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
10
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
Equality Florida Institute Inc

Equality florida institute is the educational arm of the largest civil rights organization in florida dedicated to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guilford Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Construc…Youth Mentoring ProgramsLocal Food System Organizat…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Lgbtq+ Community SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%46%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/59
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,506

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GLAAD INC — $28,493 · OtherEASTON MOUNTAIN INC — $27,880 · OtherMISSIONARY SOC OF CT SLC — $27,538 · OtherNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE — $25,977 · OtherCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BSA — $25,877 · OtherTWO STATE YMCA INCDBA BECKETCHIMNEY — $25,877 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,877 · OtherGAY LESBIAN STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK — $25,877 · OtherTHE OPEN AND AFFIRMING COALITION OF THE — $25,877 · OtherHEART STRONG INC — $25,877 · OtherPFLAG — $25,877 · OtherLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION — $25,857 · OtherGUILFORD FOUNDATION — $25,022 · OtherCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $28,393 · OtherFerry Beach Park Association — $25,877 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $28,413 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ROWE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $25,877 · OtherSOULFORCE INC — $25,877 · Other+38 more — $73,026 · Other+38 morePOINT FOUNDATION — $28,462 · EducationPOINT FOUNDAT…SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $28,413 · EducationSHINING HOPE …ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC — $28,203 · EducationST MARTIN DE …SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $25,961 · EducationSACRED HEART …+3 more — $4,236 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,877 · HealthPLANNED P…National AIDS Memorial Inc — $25,877 · HealthNational …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $25,857 · HealthPLANNED P…+2 more — $5,072 · Health+2 moreAMERICAN YOUTH HOSTELS INC — $26,025 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $25,877 · Housing & ShelterALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $2,536 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $2,536 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $3,240 · Housing & ShelterWNET — $25,898 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $25,877 · Arts & CultureLOOK FOR THE GOOD PROJECT INC — $2,536 · Arts & CultureWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC — $2,536 · Arts & CultureGUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $2,536 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $25,877 · Human ServicesNEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,877 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $2,536 · Human ServicesHolden Village — $2,536 · Human Services+1 more — $1,759 · Human ServicesHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $25,981 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $25,877 · Civil Rights
Other$549,369Education$115,275Health$82,683Housing & Shelter$60,214Arts & Culture$59,383Human Services$58,585Civil Rights$51,858

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLAAD INC — $28,493 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION — $28,462 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $28,413 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $28,413 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE — $28,393 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC — $28,203 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEASTON MOUNTAIN INC — $27,880 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH HOSTELS INC — $26,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $25,981 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE — $25,977 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $25,961 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWNET — $25,898 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $25,877 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $25,877 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $25,877 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ROWE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER INC — $25,877 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFerry Beach Park Association — $25,877 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $25,877 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,877 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPFLAG — $25,877 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $25,877 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOULFORCE INC — $25,877 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNational AIDS Memorial Inc — $25,877 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $25,857 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUILFORD FOUNDATION — $25,022 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION — $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC — $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOOK FOR THE GOOD PROJECT INC — $2,536 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Guilford Volunteer Fire Dept Inc — $2,536 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC — $2,536 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC — $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWITNESS STONES PROJECT INC — $2,536 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHolden Village — $2,536 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHORELINE GREENWAY TRAIL INC — $2,536 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC — $2,536 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC — $2,536 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc — $2,536 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY — $2,536 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $1,759 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $1,759 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAP INC — $1,686 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD GAY MENS CHORUS INC — $850 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $777 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC — $777 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $777 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Joe & Cindy Goldberg …United Way of Greater…The Community Foundat…The Stoddard Family F…The Guilford Foundati…Newalliance Foundatio…MFUND IncEder Family Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…Peoples United Commun…Yale UniversityConnecticut Humanitie…
Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation IncCT24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 David W Knapp Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Shoreline Greenway Trail Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 87 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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