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The Knowledge Freedom 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.

$453k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

International$1.2MReligion$464kFood & Nutrition$286kHuman Services$264kEducation$92kEnvironment$78kHealth$57kScience & Tech$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $143k
$7,200
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVEWELL$93,000
GIVE DIRECTLY$50,000
1INFINITELIFE$40,000
HUMANITY'S TEAM$30,000
NEW INCENTIVES$25,000
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$12,500
MALARIA CONSORTIUM$12,500
MAP INTERNATIONAL$10,000
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES$10,000
HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL$10,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$10,000
MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS$10,000
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
HOLT INTERNATIONAL$10,000
INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $5k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $4k → 12%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 15%HUMANITY'S TEAM: $30k → 12%PEACE IN SCHOOLS: $2k → 12%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $12k → 15%HUMANITY'S TEAM: $5k → 12%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $4k → 8%HUMANITY'S TEAM: $5k → 12%HOLT INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 15%HUMANITY'S TEAM: $2k → 12%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $5k → 14%BAY AREA FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
AR
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 52 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
34

Total granted

$2.3M
$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+4%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthReligionEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $399k · revenue +130%
  • MC
    MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $88k · revenue +85%
  • TA
    The Against Malaria Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -12%
  • NU
    Naropa University
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +22%
  • BF
    BERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING
    one grant, 2022 · $36k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
4
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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5
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
6
The One Campaign

The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…

Unclassified
7
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
8
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
9
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
10
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
11
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
12
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Map International Inc and the most unlike its peers is 1INFINITELIFE. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Pregnancy Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Christian Missionary Organi…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%15%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,916

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 93 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
35/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW INCENTIVES — $150,000 · InternationalNEW INCENTIVESMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $62,800 · InternationalMatthew 25 Ministries IncHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $62,500 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONA…MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS — $55,400 · InternationalMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDSMAP International Inc — $48,800 · InternationalMAP International IncHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $44,800 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIO…Kids Alive International Inc — $34,200 · InternationalKids Alive International …AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $33,600 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCDIRECT RELIEF — $28,200 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $27,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $27,000 · International+5 more — $38,880 · International+5 moreTHE CLEAR FUND — $398,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUNDTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,840 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $67,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOO…Naropa University — $39,600 · OtherNaropa UniversityBERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSING — $36,000 · OtherBERKELEY FOOD AND HOUSINGIndividual grant recipient — $28,800 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $28,500 · OtherUrban Adamah — $22,600 · OtherThe Center for Integral Wisdom — $26,040 · OtherCHOCHMAT HALEV — $24,560 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $26,840 · OtherINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $29,800 · Other+44 more — $338,972 · Other+44 more1INFINITELIFE — $304,000 · Education1INFINITELIFECALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES — $49,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA INST…+1 more — $3,000 · EducationGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $206,500 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY …HUMANITY'S TEAM — $42,200 · Human ServicesHUMANITY'S TE…HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $34,000 · Human ServicesHOLT INTERNAT…PEACE IN SCHOOLS — $10,400 · Human Services+3 more — $14,680 · Human ServicesMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC — $87,500 · HealthMALARIA C…The Against Malaria Foundation — $75,000 · HealthThe Again…SIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · HealthSIGHT SAV…SIGHTSAVERS INC — $25,000 · HealthSIGHTSAVE…SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $12,000 · Health+2 more — $6,080 · HealthMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $48,600 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $23,175 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$613,180Philanthropy$421,840Other$668,712Education$356,500Human Services$307,780Health$230,580Food & Nutrition$76,775

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $398,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budget1INFINITELIFE — $304,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $206,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW INCENTIVES — $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC — $87,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $67,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $62,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $62,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS — $55,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES — $49,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAP International Inc — $48,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $48,600 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $44,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITY'S TEAM — $42,200 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNaropa University — $39,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKids Alive International Inc — $34,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $33,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES — $29,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $28,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $28,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $26,840 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Integral Wisdom — $26,040 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSIGHT SAVERS OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIGHTSAVERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHOCHMAT HALEV — $24,560 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFeeding America — $23,175 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Adamah — $22,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $20,840 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilderness Torah — $20,280 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $19,440 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetScience and Nonduality — $16,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Himalayan Foundation — $15,480 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE IN SCHOOLS — $10,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESALEN INSTITUTE — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Ramaytush Ohlone — $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGaia Passages — $5,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW JEWISH NARRATIVE INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Fede…Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Marin Community Found…ImpactassetsincRsf Social Finance IncGs Donor Advised Phil…WK Kellogg FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Knowledge Freedom 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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