· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k29 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| PINE CREST SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| AGAWAM COUNCIL | $16,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE | $11,500 |
| THE HORD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MISS HALL'S SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $8,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| LAKE GEORGE ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| KEYSTONE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES | $5,000 |
| ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
| CREATED GAINESVILLE | $5,000 |
| DARRIN FRESH WATER INSTITUTE | $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, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +29%
- THTHE HILL SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $170k · revenue +11%
- PCPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $121k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HSHill School Capital Fund Hill School Capital Fundone grant, 2019 · $60k
- ACAgawam Cultural Council Agawam Culteral Councilone grant, 2019 · $22k
- RPRoswell Park Cancer Inst Roswell Park Cancer Instituteone grant, 2019 · $15k
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
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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
The mission of new west charter school is to provide an academically rigorous, highly individualized education for 21st century students in grades 6 - 12. in the decades to come, personal success will require increasingly high levels of…
Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Lowell school (the school) provides educational services to approximately 314 students in grades pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. the school strives to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive learning environment, and offers a…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 79 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 CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Fund for Lake George Inc ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Created Gainesville Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Touch A Heart Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lake George Land Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Hord Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds METRO CARING ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Knapp Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Knapp Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Keystone House Inc: 66% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc: 14% of income from government
- Created Gainesville Inc: 9% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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