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The Ruth M Knight Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $20,000 |
| MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA | $20,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $20,000 |
| MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| YOUNG STORYTELLERS | $20,000 |
| WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL | $20,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| TAMPA BAY ABORTION FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MSMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +47%
- EREVERYONE READING INC7× · 2017–2023 · $136k · revenue +72%
- MAMOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- HSHIGH SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIESone grant, 2018 · $20k
- COCOALITION ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND JEWISH LIFEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- SWSOUTHWEST WOMEN'S LAW CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +77%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…
Greater newark conservancy is a new jersey not-for-profit organization that expands access to healthy food, environmental education, and green spaces. we provide hands-on community programs that cultivate sustainability, inspire action,…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Food bank for nyc has been the city's major hunger-relief organization driven by our mission to empower every new yorker to achieve food security for good. we harness the collective power of our network of food providers, partners, and…
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Glynwood cultivates just and resilient regional food systems so that communities, farmers and the land thrive.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dc Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manhattan School of Music. 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 32 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 42 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 MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE READING INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTRYSIDE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG STORYTELLERS ↗
- Who funds United Workers Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COPLAND HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE INSTRUMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL OF HOWARD COUNTY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds DC ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Shepherds Table Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GULLOTTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD 2030 INC ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds IN THE FAMILY WAY ↗
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: The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Impactassetsinc · The New York Community Trust · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Ruth M Knight 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Action Council of Howard County Maryland Inc — 44% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Nature Forward — 32% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% 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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