· Private foundation
The Knobloch Family Foundation
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 $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+29 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,000,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,350,800 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY GEORGIA CHAPTER | $1,215,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC | $885,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC | $857,500 |
| GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES | $750,000 |
| ARMAND BAYOU NATURE CENTER INC | $750,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC | $722,228 |
| PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST | $700,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS | $670,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE | $600,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $525,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $508,512 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of The Knobloch Family Foundation’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.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 22 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M 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
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION3× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +42%- TATHE ATLANTA OPERA INC5× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +260%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY4× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +108%
Funded once
- MIMANOMET INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue +39%
- TNThe Nature Conservancy in Georgiaone grant, 2023 · $618k
- PFPHEASANTS FOREVER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +32%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 150 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WYLDLIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · The Nature Conservancy · Jacob and Terese Hershey Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Panoram Foundation Inc · The George B Storer Foundation Inc · Bass Pro Shops & Cabelas Outdoor Fund · Land Trust Alliance Inc · Patagoniaorg
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 Knobloch Family Foundation 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.
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation Inc — 7% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% 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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