· Private foundation
The Knapp Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kent Island High School | $25,650 |
| Talbot County Free Library Foundati | $25,000 |
| North Caroline High School | $16,693 |
| Queen Anne County High School | $14,750 |
| Easton High School | $14,750 |
| Currituck County High School | $14,500 |
| North Dorchester High School | $11,903 |
| St Michaels High School | $11,300 |
| Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitati | $10,275 |
| Colonel Richardson High School | $9,500 |
| Woodford Cedar Run Wildlife Refuge | $9,095 |
| Washington High School | $8,500 |
| South Dorchester High School | $8,250 |
| Amer Foundation for the Blind | $5,000 |
| Easton Vol Fire Dept | $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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 19 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC2× · 2020–2022 · $27k · revenue +80%
Learning Ally Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +70%- SMST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- DUDucks Unlimited Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
- SCSouth Carolina Aquariumgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +64%
- PHPELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +30%
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.
None
We provide care for and find permanent placement for animals in need. our funds are used to operate a shelter where animals are properly cared for. we provide food, kennel equipment, boarding, training and medical care and transport for…
To promote and further the protection of animals and provide for prevention of cruelty to the same within the city of ocean city and surrounding areas. the organization also maintains shelter for protection, care, and welfare of animals…
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Operation of a no-kill animal shelter
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
Care and adoption placement of pets.
To provide shelter and care for animals in need and reduce euthanasia of surplus animals through spaying and neutering.
The humane society of washington county exists to improve the quality of life for all animals through education, legislation, action and leadership. we strive to eliminate overpopulation and to foster an environment of respect,…
To prevent cruelty to animals, provide humane education, and relief to suffering animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caroline County Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Foundation for the Blind Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 41 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds TALBOT COUNTY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds PELICAN HARBOR SEABIRD STATION INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Keys Wild Bird Rehabilitation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SEABIRDS INC ↗
- Who funds WHALE AND DOLPHIN CONSERVATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CHOPTANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICOMICO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER 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: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Michael J and Patricia Levitt Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Knapp Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Choptank Inc — 10% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% 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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