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The Knossos Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$677k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
32%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$27,100
Largest grant, FY2024
$80,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$9.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations The Knossos Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EmploymentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving21$677k76%
FY202319$600k32%
FY202224$633k54%
FY202128$644k14%
FY202030$562k33%
FY201930$612k30%
FY201833$552k24%
FY201728$552kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MYouth Development$777kArts & Culture$709kHuman Services$384kHousing & Shelter$370kHealth$316kEmployment$315kPhilanthropy$166kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Summer Search$270,00040%
University of Redlands$155,00050%
Symphonic Jazz Orchestra$57,50083%
Evans Scholars Foundation$50,00010%
The University of Puget Sound$50,00010%
Treehouse$50,00010%
Family Law Casa of King County$45,00014%
Vision House$45,00011%
Farestart$45,00010%
Center for Human Services$32,00050%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Knossos Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSummer Search: $270,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Redlands: $155,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSymphonic Jazz Orchestra: $57,500 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetEvans Scholars Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Puget Sound: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTreehouse: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Law Casa of King County: $45,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetVision House: $45,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFarestart: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Human Services: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShoreline Public Schools Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Knossos Foundation Inc

How much does The Knossos Foundation Inc give?
The Knossos Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $677,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Knossos Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Youth Development (16%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are The Knossos Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Summer Search ($270k), University of Redlands ($155k), Symphonic Jazz Orchestra ($58k).
Does The Knossos Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Knossos Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Knossos Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Knossos Foundation Inc based?
The Knossos Foundation Inc is based in WA.

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 94 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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