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The Knapp Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Knapp Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.7MArts & Culture$1.3MInternational$425kHealth$370kEmployment$300kCivil Rights$275kReligion$198kPublic Benefit$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $233k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $763k
  • $250k+2 grants · $551k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Americans for Oxford$301,000
Columbia University$250,000
Hebrew University of Jerusalem$110,000
The Jewish Museum$102,800
Jerusalem Foundation$100,000
BreakthroughT1D$100,000
Museum of Jewish Heritage$89,860
Fordham University$60,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JT DISRIBUTION COMM$50,000
JDC$50,000
New York University$50,000
CT Public Broadcasting Inc$50,000
American Jewish Historical Society$45,000
American Friends of Hebrew University$40,000
American University$35,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Hebrew University of Jerusalem: $110k → 11%FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $250k → 6%American Jewish Historical Society: $45k → 17%Fordham University: $60k → 28%AAIP: $25k → 16%American University: $35k → 14%CT Public Broadcasting Inc: $50k → 11%Middlebury College: $100k → 9%Hebrew University of Jerusalem: $110k → 11%American Jewish Historical Society: $35k → 17%Fordham University: $60k → 28%CT Public Broadcasting Inc: $50k → 11%Middlebury College: $100k → 9%Hebrew University Sassoon Center: $75k → 11%American Jewish Historical Society: $30k → 17%Fordham University: $25k → 28%Connecticut Public Broadcasting: $25k → 11%Middlebury College: $100k → 9%Middlebury College: $100k → 9%Museum of Jewish Heritage: $130k → 17%Americans for Oxford: $301k → 17%Museum of Jewish Heritage: $115k → 17%Americans for Oxford: $274k → 17%Museum of Jewish Heritage: $90k → 17%Americans for Oxford: $240k → 17%Museum of Jewish Heritage: $90k → 17%Americans for Oxford: $200k → 17%Museum of Jewish Heritage: $75k → 17%Americans for Oxford: $200k → 17%American Friends of Hebrew University: $140k → 17%American Friends of Hebrew University: $40k → 17%American Friends of Hebrew University: $40k → 17%American Friends to the Hebrew University: $40k → 17%New York University: $50k → 17%New York University: $50k → 17%Jerusalem Foundation: $100k → 17%Jerusalem Foundation: $100k → 17%Jerusalem Foundation: $75k → 17%Jerusalem Foundation: $75k → 17%Jerusalem Foundation: $75k → 17%New York University: $50k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $103k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $100k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $100k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $100k → 17%The Jewish Museum: $60k → 17%JDC: $50k → 17%JDC: $50k → 17%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 21 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$5.5M
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +34%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $486k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • HU
    Hebrew University Sassoon Center
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +2%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
3
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
8
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
9
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
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $1,215,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $827,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY O…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $439,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeFordham University: $195,000 · EducationFordham UniversityNew York University: $150,000 · Education+3 more: $168,170 · Education+3 moreAMERICAN JEWISH JT DISRIBUTION COMM: $275,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH JT D…Hebrew University of Jerusalem: $220,000 · OtherHebrew University of…Central European University: $200,000 · OtherCentral European Uni…Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies: $122,720 · OtherOxford Centre for He…JDC: $100,000 · OtherJDCUniversity of Vienna: $100,000 · OtherUniversity of ViennaCT Public Broadcasting Inc: $100,000 · OtherCT Public Broadcasti…Hebrew University Sassoon Center: $75,000 · OtherHebrew University Sa…+2 more: $45,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $499,680 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HER…THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $486,400 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $185,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HIST…+4 more: $57,800 · Arts & CultureJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 · InternationalJERUSALEM F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $260,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FR…THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $250,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 · HealthMDRC: $300,000 · Employment
Education$2,994,170Other$1,237,720Arts & Culture$1,228,880International$685,000Health$350,000Employment$300,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $1,215,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $827,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $499,680 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $486,400 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $439,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMDRC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $260,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFordham University: $195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $185,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNew York University: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $73,170 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN INDIAN PHYSICIANS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH BOOK COUNCIL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $1,000 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.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Knapp Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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