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The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 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, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$855
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WNET 13$855
HEART STRONG$855
SOULFORCE INC$855
ACLU FDN OF CONNECTICUT INC$855
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION$855
TWO STATE YMCA INCDBA BECKETCHIMNEY$855
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$855
NATIONAL AIDS MEMORIAL INC$855
NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CTR$855
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER NEW HAVEN$855
NATIONAL LGBTQ TASK FORCE$855
EASTON MOUNTAIN INC$855
Individual grant recipient$855
CONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BSA$855
POINT FOUNDATION$855
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 (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 its 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
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

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+56%

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 & ShelterHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • 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
  • EM
    EASTON MOUNTAIN POINT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $850
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,877 · OtherPFLAG: $25,877 · OtherCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BSA: $25,877 · OtherTWO STATE YMCA INCDBA BECKETCHIMNEY: $25,877 · OtherTHE OPEN AND AFFIRMING COALITION OF THE: $25,877 · OtherHEART STRONG INC: $25,877 · OtherGAY LESBIAN STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK: $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 · OtherSOULFORCE INC: $25,877 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ROWE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER 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 & CultureGUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $2,536 · Arts & CultureLOOK FOR THE GOOD PROJECT INC: $2,536 · Arts & CultureWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $2,536 · Arts & CultureNEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,877 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25,877 · Human ServicesHolden Village: $2,536 · Human ServicesTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $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 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 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 budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $25,877 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPFLAG: $25,877 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25,877 over 2y, 5.1% 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 budgetFerry Beach Park Association: $25,877 over 2y, 1.7% 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 budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $25,877 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST ROWE CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER INC: $25,877 over 2y, 3.0% 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 budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHORELINE GREENWAY TRAIL INC: $2,536 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $2,536 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY: $2,536 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetHolden Village: $2,536 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetWITNESS STONES PROJECT INC: $2,536 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC: $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC: $2,536 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $2,536 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC: $2,536 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $2,536 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Guilford Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $2,536 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $1,759 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTWO STATE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,759 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetMAD (MATHARTSDESIGNS): $777 over 1y, 60% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $777 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.

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.

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

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 David W Knapp Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
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 87 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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