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The Knott Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Knott Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$330kHealth$105kEducation$53kHuman Services$21kHousing & Shelter$4kRecreation & Sports$2kArts & Culture$2kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$100
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGING FORWARD OF DURHAM INC$10,000
DURHAM LIONS CLUB$1,000
NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION$500
GIVE HOPE$500
TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH$400
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$200
ALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$200
CROASDAILE GARDEN CLUB$200
Individual grant recipient$100
Individual grant recipient$100
HICKORY RIDGE GOLF FUND$100
WATTS ST BAPTIST CHURCH$100
Individual grant recipient$100
Individual grant recipient$100
ALLEGHANY CO RESCUE SQUAD$100
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHARLES HOUSE ASSOC: $100 → 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

IL
NY
WY
IN
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$488k · 33 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
73

Total granted

$488k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+35%

Still filing today

45%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $51k · revenue +44%
  • AM
    Alleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +342%
  • RM
    RESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALLEGHANY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • Alleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

—
4
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
5
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
7
Advance Community Health Inc

To deliver quality, compassionate primary health care. every patient. every time. in response to the needs of our communities.

Health
8
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

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.

Human Services
9
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health
10
Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education
11
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
12
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alleghany Partnership for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH: $311,048 · OtherTEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCHDUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $51,150 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERAGING FORWARD OF DURHAM INC: $15,000 · Other+92 more: $46,414 · Other+92 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,729 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…+7 more: $3,300 · Education+7 moreAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC: $30,100 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAlleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc: $10,000 · HealthChapel Hill Breast Cancer Foundation: $900 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $600 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $550 · HealthHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Health+3 more: $300 · HealthCHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $1,100 · Public Safety & DisasterHUNTERS HELPING KIDS INC: $200 · Public Safety & DisasterPORCH INC: $200 · Food & NutritionSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $50 · Food & NutritionTHE CHURCH OF JOY: $200 · Religion
Other$423,612Education$54,029Philanthropy$31,100Health$12,850Public Safety & Disaster$1,300Food & Nutrition$250Religion$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,729 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC: $30,100 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetAlleghany County Memorial Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $3,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $1,450 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHERRY LANE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIVE HOPE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA ORDER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChapel Hill Breast Cancer Foundation: $900 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHANY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Child and Family Health Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOYAGER ACADEMY INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHANY WELLNESS CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP LUCK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 GIVE HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds KAPPA ALPHA ORDER ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • 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 HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGHANY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION IN ↗

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.

Triangle Community Fo…The Little Farm Found…United Way of the Gre…Duke Energy FoundationNorth Carolina Commun…The Winston-Salem Fou…Foundation for the Ca…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Raymond James Charita…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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