· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE BAY AREA | $10,000 |
| MOVING FORWARD TOWARD INDEPENDENCE | $10,000 |
| BETHESDA TEACHING MINISTRY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- PEPETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
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How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETALUMA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTH BAY ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Diana Dollar Knowles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diana Dollar Knowles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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