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The Knapp Fund

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.

$239k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2025
35
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$4.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations The Knapp Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving36$239k8%
FY202435$245k37%
FY202331$285k19%
FY202229$297k10%
FY202130$255k23%
FY202028$248k11%
FY201928$248k61%
FY201826$228k23%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MHealth$380kEnvironment$248kArts & Culture$148kHuman Services$83kReligion$62kCrime & Legal$35kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$204,00090%
The Hill School$170,00030%
Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc$121,00080%
The Hotchkiss School$102,00050%
St Elizabeth's School$68,00090%
Duke University$65,00050%
Keystone House Inc$55,00090%
Kent School$53,50090%
The Lake George Association Inc$49,00090%
The Fund for Lake George Inc$40,00051%
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All grantees of The Knapp Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$204,00090%
The Hill School$170,00030%
Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc$121,00080%
The Hotchkiss School$102,00050%
St Elizabeth's School$68,00090%
Duke University$65,00050%
Keystone House Inc$55,00090%
Kent School$53,50090%
The Lake George Association Inc$49,00090%
The Fund for Lake George Inc$40,00051%
Miss Hall's School Inc$37,50070%
Created Gainesville Inc$35,00072%
Wichita Collegiate School$27,00090%
Touch A Heart Foundation Inc$25,000511%
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies$24,00050%
Morris Animal Foundation$23,50090%
Lake George Land Conservancy Inc$21,00090%
Hord Foundation Inc$20,000210%
Metro Caring$18,00050%
Sunset Presbyterian Church$17,0002n/a
National Outdoor Leadership School$17,00040%
Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc$12,00050%
State University of New York at Binghamton$11,5002n/a
Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Yale University$10,0001n/a
Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc$9,50050%
Tricity Family Services$9,00050%
Yale University$8,0002n/a
Crossroads Community Services Inc$6,00030%
Ethel Walker School Inc$5,00010%
Underground Network Incorporated$5,00010%
Yale University$5,0001n/a
National Ability Center$5,00020%
Nashoba Learning Group Inc$4,00020%
Ellie Burns Foundation$4,0002n/a
Project Hood Community Development Corporation$4,00020%
Sierra Club Foundation$4,00010%
Colorado Open Lands$3,00020%
Bridge of Hope Inc$3,00010%
Malta House Inc$2,00010%
Joshua Inc$1,50010%
High Line Canal Conservancy$1,00010%
Broomfield STEM$1,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($918k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Knapp Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $204,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hill School: $170,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPine Crest Preparatory School Inc: $121,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hotchkiss School: $102,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Elizabeth's School: $68,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetDuke University: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKeystone House Inc: $55,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetKent School: $53,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lake George Association Inc: $49,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fund for Lake George Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMiss Hall's School Inc: $37,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCreated Gainesville Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetWichita Collegiate School: $27,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTouch A Heart Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetAspen Center for Environmental Studies: $24,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMorris Animal Foundation: $23,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLake George Land Conservancy Inc: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHord Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMetro Caring: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Outdoor Leadership School: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSilvermine Guild of Artists Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWarriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJack and Jill Children's Center Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTricity Family Services: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Community Services Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEthel Walker School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnderground Network Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Ability Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNashoba Learning Group Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hood Community Development Corporation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridge of Hope Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMalta House Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJoshua Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Line Canal Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroomfield STEM: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 37.

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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.

Ge Aerospace FoundationCT12.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Knapp Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Knapp Fund 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.

About The Knapp Fund

How much does The Knapp Fund give?
The Knapp Fund reported 36 grants totaling $238,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Knapp Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Health (17%), Environment (11%).
Who are The Knapp Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ($204k), The Hill School ($170k), Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc ($121k).
Does The Knapp Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Knapp Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Knapp Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ge Aerospace Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Knapp Fund based?
The Knapp Fund is based in NY.

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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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