Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Kneisel Foundation Inc
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.
- $453k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 76
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Kneisel Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $437k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $310k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $324k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $308k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $345k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $261k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pingree School Inc | $172,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Charlotte Country Day School | $166,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cape Ann Museum Inc | $145,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Brookwood School Incorporated | $143,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $109,500 | 6 | 0% |
| North Shore Community Development Coalit | $52,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of Manchester Trees | $46,246 | 4 | 40% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rockport Music Inc | $41,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Kneisel Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Kenwood Foundation 7521-Xxxxxx21240 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Robbins Nest Foundation Anthony P Fusco Trustee · Mark and Cynthia Ross Family Charitable Trust · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · The Amg Charitable Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About The Kneisel Foundation Inc
- How much does The Kneisel Foundation Inc give?
- The Kneisel Foundation Inc reported 64 grants totaling $453,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 76 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Kneisel Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (51%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (8%).
- Who are The Kneisel Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Pingree School Inc ($172k), Charlotte Country Day School ($166k), Cape Ann Museum Inc ($145k).
- Does The Kneisel Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Kneisel Foundation Inc 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 Kneisel Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc, Kenwood Foundation 7521-Xxxxxx21240.
- Where is The Kneisel Foundation Inc based?
- The Kneisel Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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