· Private foundation
The Knott Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AGING FORWARD OF DURHAM INC | $10,000 |
| DURHAM LIONS CLUB | $1,000 |
| GIVE HOPE | $500 |
| NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION | $500 |
| TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $400 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $200 |
| ALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $200 |
| CROASDAILE GARDEN CLUB | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| ST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| SPARTA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $100 |
| ALLEGHANY CO RESCUE SQUAD | $100 |
| DUKE CANCER CENTER | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY20–20, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
33 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $51k · revenue +44%- AMAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +4%
- RMRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- AHALLEGHANY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To deliver quality, compassionate primary health care. every patient. every time. in response to the needs of our communities.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alleghany Partnership for Children and the most unlike its peers is Hunters Helping Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 118 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Alleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC ↗
- Who funds Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA ORDER ↗
- Who funds Chapel Hill Breast Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds THE CHURCH OF JOY ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Little Farm Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Knott 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.
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.