· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS | $10,000 |
| MCCALLUM THEATRE | $10,000 |
| AUSTIN ARTWORKS | $10,000 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - HOUSTON TEXAS WALK | $10,000 |
| HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION COMMUNITY FUND | $8,000 |
| DENVER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SISTER THEA BOWMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| THE ALS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CELEBRATION MINISTRIES INC - DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 DENVER DEBUTANTE BALL INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Knowlton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Knowlton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Volunteers in Medicine Clinic: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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