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The Diana Dollar Knowles 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $452k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $125,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $100,000 |
| GRACE CATHEDRAL | $85,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $66,900 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC | $35,000 |
| ACHIEVE TAHOE | $19,604 |
| MOVING FORWARD TOWARD INDEPENDENCE | $10,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE BAY AREA | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $902k · revenue +37%
- COCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS9× · 2017–2025 · $800k · revenue +19%
- LTLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE3× · 2023–2025 · $176k · revenue +34%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -9%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAYone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -91%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Moving Forward Towards Independence. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 58 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of the Bay Area Inc ↗
- Who funds The Ghiberti Foundation dba Ghiberti Center for Culture ↗
- Who funds Moving Forward Towards Independence ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIND CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY ↗
- Who funds PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds AFRICA FOUNDATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC LAW SF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUGULETHU BALLET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Flora Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Yelp Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation
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 Diana Dollar Knowles 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
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.
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