· Private foundation
The Knight Family Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE KNIGHT FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $271k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TABLE TO TABLE | $71,000 |
| CIRCLE OF CARE | $50,000 |
| BUEHLER CHALLENGER & SCIENCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF KAREN | $50,000 |
| MEND | $50,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $45,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $40,000 |
| SHARE MY MEALS INC | $25,000 |
| PONY POWER THERAPIES INC | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| DUMPED & STRAY ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $22,500 |
| PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE | $20,000 |
| ST LUKE COMMUNITY DEVOPMENT CENTER | $17,000 |
| SPCA OF WESTCHESTER | $15,000 |
| A CHANCE IN LIFE INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 82% of The Knight Family Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- TTTABLE TO TABLE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $436k · revenue +50%
EVA'S VILLAGE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $308k · revenue +30%- FOFRIENDS OF KAREN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $307k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CMCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INCone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -32%
- BCBUEHLER CHALLENGER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MCMORRISTOWN COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHENone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…
City relief provides fresh, nutritious meals and essential care items to individuals in need; as well as creating individualized action plans including connections to programs,offering support and encouragement.
Jewish family service and children's center of clifton-passaic is a social services and mental health agency that seeks to enhance the lives of indiviuals and families. the organization offers psychotherapy, psychiatry, geriatric, crisis…
To deliver hot meals to people within the pascack valley area of bergen county who are unable to shop or cook for themselves because of age or physical disability.
Community servings' mission is to actively engage the community to provide medically tailored, nutritious, scratch-made meals and medically tailored groceries to chronically and critically ill individuals and their families.
At caring for the hungry and homeless of peekskill (chhop), we believe that every person is entitled to safe and affordable housing and healthy nutritious food.
Center for hope and safety, inc.'s ("chs") mission is to assist bergen county, nj victims and survivors of domestic violence, including emotional, economic, sexual and physical abuse. the agency provides emergency and transitional housing,…
Carelink community support services of new jersey's mission is to assist adult citizens of nj living with psychiatric disability in acquiring the tools necessary to live health and fulfilling lives.
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
Founded in 1991, community housing innovations, inc. (chi) is a not-for-profit organization serving several new york counties. chi's mission is to provide housing and human services that support social and economic independence. chi's…
St. vincent depaul middletown (svdm) was founded in 1980 by the sisters of mercy and the catholic diocese of norwich. svdm's mission is to provide food, shelter and basic human services to poor and homeless individuals regardless of race,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roots & Wings Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Scholarship Foundation for Hide-a-Way Lake Students. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
25 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. 25 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 TABLE TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds EVA'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS CROSSED ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds JESPY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHNJ INC ↗
- Who funds PONY POWER THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BEDTIME INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE IN LIFEINC ↗
- Who funds SHARE MY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds DUMPED & STRAY ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CARE PLUS NJ INC ↗
- Who funds Josephine's Place Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOTS & WINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE INC OF SCHENECTADY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEALS 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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Provident Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Knight Family Charitable 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.
- Care Plus Nj Inc — 38% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Eva's Village Inc — 19% of income from government
- Jespy House Inc — 2% 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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