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The Knowlton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k20 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORMEL HISTORIC HOME | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - CA WILDFIRES | $20,000 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $10,000 |
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $10,000 |
| MCCALLUM THEATRE | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN ARTWORKS | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - HOUSTON TEXAS WALK | $10,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND | $8,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| SISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE ALS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CELEBRATION MINISTRIES INC - DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 10 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $507k · revenue +40%
- ASAUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY4× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +80% · 29% of their budget
- VHVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +3%
- MCMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSICone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +23%
- THThe Hormel Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +35%
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Essential Tremor Foundation. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 144 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HORMEL HISTORIC HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds The Hormel Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds R3 DEVELOPMENT NFP ↗
- Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER DEBUTANTE BALL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Hormel Foods Corporation Charitable Trust · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Denver Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Knowlton 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.
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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