· Private foundation
The Jeffrey R and Laura J Knudson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIPPLE MINISTRIES OF SNOHOMISH | $3,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $2,000 |
| PRE-BORN | $1,400 |
| HOUSING HOPE | $1,000 |
| PROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HEALTH & HOPE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| COCOON HOUSE | $1,000 |
| IMAGINE CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SUN ANGEL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CADDIES FOR KIDS | $500 |
| PROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- TFTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $13k · revenue +67%
- WFWOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +16%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +26%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +51%- RWRICK WADDELL PLAY YELLOWone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence General Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Everett High Blue and Gold Club. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 42 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 THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIPPLE MINISTRIES OF SNOHOMISH ↗
- Who funds SUN ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE GENERAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Healthy Alternatives to Violent Environm ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERETT HIGH BLUE AND GOLD CLUB ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CADDIES FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARBARA AND STEVE WILSON EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS PATHFINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARYSVILLE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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: Howarth Trust Inc · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Evertrust Foundation · Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Jeffrey R and Laura J Knudson Family 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.
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.