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The Kneisel Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$334kHealth$174kEnvironment$114kSocial Science$70kCommunity Improvement$68kPhilanthropy$40kYouth Development$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k51 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $173k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKWOOD SCHOOL$62,000
HOPKINS SCHOOL$56,000
CAPE ANN MUSEUM$55,000
THE TAFT SCHOOL$27,500
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$27,500
PINGREE SCHOOL$25,000
BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$15,000
HOOPER FUND$15,000
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$12,500
METROPOLITAN OPERA$10,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$10,000
MANCHESTER TROOP 3 BOY SCOUTS$10,000
M E C T$7,500
INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC$7,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $3k → 16%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $1k → 10%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $500 → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $500 → 10%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $500 → 10%LENOX HILL NEIGHORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
MD
KS
NC
DC
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 76 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
48

Total granted

$1.8M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $172k · revenue +38%
  • CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +271%
  • TT
    THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT
    one grant, 2021 · $53k · revenue 0%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HS
    HOPKINS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
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
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
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
5
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is New York Physicians Foundation Inc. 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

79 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. 79 of the 135 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
56/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $172,000 · EducationTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INCCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $166,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $145,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATIONBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $143,000 · EducationBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATEDTrustees of Dartmouth College: $139,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $109,500 · EducationHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATEDPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $45,000 · Education+11 more: $80,600 · Education+11 moreHOOPER FUND: $90,000 · OtherHOOPER FUNDHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLISLAND ACADEMY: $70,000 · OtherISLAND ACADEMYMETROPOLITAN OPERA: $62,500 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAFRIENDS OF MANCHESTER TREES: $46,246 · OtherFRIENDS OF MANCHESTER TREESMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $37,500 · OtherSANGER HEART & VASCULAR INSTITUTION ADVANCEMENT FUND: $35,000 · Other+75 more: $317,838 · Other+75 moreCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSE…ROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $41,000 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT MUSI…BRUCE MUSEUM INC: $25,500 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM …PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX…+9 more: $21,200 · Arts & Culture+9 moreNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterWAY FINDERS INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $2,250 · Housing & ShelterCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $4,500 · EnvironmentSALEM SOUND 2000 INC: $2,750 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $2,750 · EnvironmentTHE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY: $2,500 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 · Environment+2 more: $750 · EnvironmentATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $32,500 · HealthINNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC: $7,500 · HealthThe Stamford Hospital: $7,500 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyJANES FUND: $7,500 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,000,100Other$729,084Arts & Culture$252,700Housing & Shelter$57,250Environment$52,250Health$51,500Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $172,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $166,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $145,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $143,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $139,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $109,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT: $52,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF MANCHESTER TREES: $46,246 over 4y, 40% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Shore Nursery School: $13,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLYING KITES INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJANES FUND: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREADWORKSINC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKNEISEL HALL: $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM SOUND 2000 INC: $2,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC: $2,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROOT NS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAY FINDERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK PHYSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MANCHESTER TREES ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Nursery School ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FLYING KITES 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.

Essex County Communit…Institution for Savin…Kenwood Foundation 75…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncRobbins Nest Foundati…Mark and Cynthia Ross…Van Otterloo Family F…The Amg Charitable Fo…People's United Commu…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Salem Sound 2000 Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Way Finders Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Supportive Living Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get 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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How do I get to The Kneisel Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Kneisel 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 135 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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