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The Knisely Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOURISH | $27,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $15,000 |
| DENVER RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| MOBILE MEALS OF WENATCHEE | $15,000 |
| GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WYOMING | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DOUGLAS | $15,000 |
| AMBERLY'S PLACE | $15,000 |
| THE HEALING JOURNEY | $13,000 |
| THE DRAWING STUDIO | $12,000 |
| BLUE LOTUS ARTIST COLLECTIVE | $12,000 |
| CROSSROADS - FALLEN FRUIT PROJECT | $12,000 |
| WIKITONGUES INC | $11,800 |
| CONVERSE HOPE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +57% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- NNOURISH8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +68% · 42% of their budget
- FBFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES6× · 2018–2024 · $111k · revenue +68%
- OFOur Family Services Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $94k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TJTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +56%
- CCCONVERSE COUNTY COALITION AGAINST VIOLENCEone grant, 2018 · $15k
- KPKING'S PORTION COMMUNITY PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Codac provides tools, support and services to individuals, families, and communities so they may live with dignity, free from the harmful effects of mental illness, substance use disorders and trauma.
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
TCAA's mission is to eliminate poverty and advance equitable communities. This mission is achieved through the delivery of comprehensive human services programs designed to improve housing stability, increase food security, improve health…
Ymca of southern arizona is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and helping all people realize their fullest potential through the development of spirit, mind and body. we are a powerful association of men, women and children,…
To provide accessible holistic patient centered care, to empower our community to achieve the highest quality health and well-being.
The mission of canyonlands healthcare is to promote healthier lives through affordable, accessible, integrated primary care.
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
We stabilize people during crisis and transition, build a foundation where people can thrive, and preserve dignity and respect for the most vulnerable.
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern California and the most unlike its peers is The Healing Journey Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 68 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 NOURISH ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Our Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WOMEN NEW YORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE HOPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TMC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Healing Journey Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Douglas ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Amberlys Place ↗
- Who funds GORGE GROWN FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TUCSON COMMUNITY TENNIS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds WIKITONGUES INC ↗
- Who funds Tucson Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds YUMA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS MISSION ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE COUNTY COALITION AGAINST VIOLENCE ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Arizona Community Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Margaret E Mooney Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The David and Lura Lovell · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Wyoming Community 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 Knisely Family 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% 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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