· Public charity
The Knights Foundation Inc
To provide financial assistance toward tuition and expenses for the benefit of worthy students at bishop rosecrans high school and bishop fenwick school in zanesville, ohio as well as any other worthy local charities that are registered with the state of ohio and provide us proof that they are exempt from federal income tax under section…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP FENWICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $50,400 |
| ZANESVILLE KC CORPORATION | $11,000 |
| MUSKINGUM VALLEY OLD TIMERS | $6,750 |
| MUSKINGUM VALLEY MIRACLE LEAGUE INC | $6,750 |
| BISHOP ROSECRANS ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $5,000 |
| BISHOP ROSECRANS HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| TRANSITIONS INC | $2,500 |
| TRU LIGHT MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER SOCIETY INC | $2,000 |
| NAMI SIX COUNTY | $750 |
| FOREVER DADS | $500 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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 -2% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BFBISHOP FENWICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $439k
- BRBISHOP ROSECRANS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $125k
- MIMVOML INC7× · 2018–2024 · $37k · revenue -61% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- SNST NICHOLAS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $6k
- STST THOMAS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $6k
- ZMZANESVILLE MUSKINGUM COUNTY PORT AUTHORITYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Vetbaseball, inc. will provide benevolent assistance to military veterans and gold star families. more specifically, the organization will provide the means for disadvantaged, disabled, financially unable, elderly, or ill veterans and gold…
To promote awareness about veteran suicide and homelessness. to provide support with locating housing and va benefits.
Provide assistance and support to disabled veterans and their families
Promote awareness of cancer from tobacco use
Provide service dogs to us military veterans
Support families affected by autism
To assist veterans with mental health
Dog t.a.g.s.' mission is to train, guide and serve veterans suffering from the invisible wounds of post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and traumatic brain injury (tbi) through the operation of a service dog program. the organization is…
To aid homeless veterans
To help veterans, and first responders who suffer from ptsd with a procedure called sgb, or stellate ganglion block.
Organization's purpose is to promote the sport of baseball and healthy life style among youth by providing mentoring, training and tournaments.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foreverdads and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 MVOML INC ↗
- Who funds MUSKINGUM VALLEY OLD-TIMERS BASEBALL ASSN OF ZANESVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TRULIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE KC CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUTISM ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds The Animal Shelter Society Inc ↗
- Who funds FOREVERDADS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS APPRECIATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn · The Muskingum County Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Knights 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.