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The Knobloch Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$24M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$48MEducation$15MAnimals$9.2MArts & Culture$3.6MPhilanthropy$3.1MHealth$1.1MScience & Tech$470kReligion$405kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+29 grants · $19M
$175,727
Median grant
15
States reached
$163M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARMAND BAYOU NATURE CENTER INC$750,000
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES$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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Manomet Inc: $1.2M → 8%ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC: $858k → 9%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE: $437k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELE: $440k → 10%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $360k → 7%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC: $885k → 13%Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc: $1.0M → 17%TEXAS WATER TRADE: $361k → 10%Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation: $1.0M → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF TEXAS: $670k → 16%GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $396k → 16%Eleanor Ratchford Schwab Donnor Advised Fund: $500k → 13%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1.4M → 16%Georgia Natural Resources Foundation: $705k → 11%The Nature Conservancy in Georgia: $504k → 14%Bird Conservancy of the Rockies: $561k → 11%World Wildlife Fund: $500k → 14%The Conservation Fund: $2.0M → 7%Pheasants Forever Inc and Quail Forever: $600k → 14%ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 9%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $1.0M → 17%Coastal Bend Bays Estuaries Program: $387k → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $722k → 17%Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc: $690k → 17%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY GEORGIA CHAPTER: $1.2M → 13%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3.0M → 7%Open Space Institute Land Trust Inc: $650k → 17%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCORPORATED: $400k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $1.0M → 7%See Statement Attached: $6.5M → 16%Land Trust Alliance: $400k → 14%The Nature Conservancy: $1.0M → 7%The Nature Conservancy: $571k → 7%FRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $373k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $525k → 7%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $509k → 7%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $17.1M → 16%GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: $750k → 13%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $8.5M → 16%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $500k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $600k → 5%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $500k → 13%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $500k → 13%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $485k → 13%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $450k → 13%Georgia Department of Natural Resources: $320k → 13%The Trust For Public Land: $600k → 13%The Trust For Public Land: $532k → 13%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

AK
ID
MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
WV
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of The Knobloch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Knobloch Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54M · 58 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
65

Total granted

$54M
$8.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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 CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    3× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +26%
  • TA
    THE ATLANTA OPERA INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +260%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY
    4× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • MI
    MANOMET INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue +33%
  • TN
    The Nature Conservancy in Georgia
    one grant, 2023 · $618k
  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue +32%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
3
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

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.

Environment
4
Washington Forest Law Center

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.

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5
Wetlands America Trust Inc

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…

Environment
6
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
7
Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment
8
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
9
The Wildlife Society

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.

Animals
10
Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment
11
Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation

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…

Environment
12
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust; 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.
05the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 149 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
64/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES: $10,737,500 · OtherGEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCESYALE UNIVERSITY: $9,887,866 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $9,258,885 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYUniversity of Wyoming: $1,663,910 · Other+70 more: $15,544,279 · Other+70 moreOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $4,122,228 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND …THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,300,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NO…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,739,700 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDMANOMET INC: $1,228,518 · EnvironmentMANOMET INCPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $1,180,500 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDAT…OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $1,005,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC: $885,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $840,000 · EnvironmentArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $750,000 · EnvironmentPRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST: $700,000 · Environment+23 more: $3,548,662 · Environment+23 moreROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $1,964,923 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,020,000 · AnimalsTHE WYLDLIFE FUND: $903,849 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $377,321 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $373,223 · AnimalsAmerican Bird Conservancy: $243,105 · AnimalsTHE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS: $239,863 · Animals+8 more: $341,832 · AnimalsTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $2,630,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $500,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $237,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $105,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $960,000 · EducationYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $600,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $380,422 · EducationThe Madeira School: $270,000 · EducationDavidson College: $265,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE EDUCATION INC: $175,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $129,491 · EducationEVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC: $120,000 · Education+3 more: $35,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $1,069,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $600,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $395,721 · Philanthropy+2 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,005,000 · Health
Other$47,092,440Environment$19,299,608Animals$5,464,116Arts & Culture$3,472,500Education$2,934,913Philanthropy$2,114,721Health$1,005,000

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 NATURE CONSERVANCY: $9,258,885 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $4,122,228 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ATLANTA OPERA INC: $2,630,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY: $1,964,923 over 4y, 19% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,739,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER: $1,320,570 over 5y, 17% of budgetMANOMET INC: $1,228,518 over 1y, 21% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $1,180,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $1,069,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,020,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,005,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $1,005,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $960,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WYLDLIFE FUND: $903,849 over 3y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN NATURE INC: $885,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $840,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetArmand Bayou Nature Center Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetPRICKLY PEAR LAND TRUST: $700,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc: $600,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL: $505,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $500,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $395,721 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING STOCK GROWERS LAND TRUST: $390,400 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $380,422 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $377,321 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $373,223 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTEXAS WATER TRADE: $360,503 over 1y, 14% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $325,814 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $300,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR GULF COAST LAND CONSERVATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetThe Madeira School: $270,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDavidson College: $265,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy: $243,105 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS: $239,863 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $237,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetCoastal Prairie Conservancy: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $176,440 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHSIDE EDUCATION INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $150,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $145,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $129,491 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY STUDENT EVERY COMMUNITY INC: $120,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTexas Agricultural Land Trust: $110,565 over 1y, 0.9% 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 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 PHEASANTS FOREVER INC ↗
  • Who funds YES Prep Public Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗

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.

Community Foundation …National Fish and Wil…Wyoming Community Fou…Wyoming Assn of Non P…The Nature ConservancyJacob and Terese Hers…Greater Houston Commu…Panoram Foundation IncThe George B Storer F…Bass Pro Shops & Cabe…Land Trust Alliance I…Patagoniaorg
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY37.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Knobloch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Knobloch Family Foundation 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 149 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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