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The Sandra & Mitchell Knisbacher Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Sandra & Mitchell Knisbacher 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.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$352kInternational$279kPhilanthropy$54kHealth$24kHuman Services$9kEducation$9kArts & Culture$6kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Fund of Israel$35,000
Erase PTSD Now$10,000
Individual grant recipient$3,600
Eruv Committee of Burlington Vermont$1,800
America Gives$1,000
Bais Yaakov of Scranton$1,000
Chabad of Southern Vermont$500
Individual grant recipient$500
PEF Endowment Funds$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%Israel Select Charity Fund: $10k → 14%Mesila International Inc: $5k → 14%Israel Select Charity Fund: $8k → 14%Mesila International: $2k → 14%Mesila International: $540 → 14%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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CO
MD
DC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 35 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
38

Total granted

$661k
$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+13%

Still filing today

51%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +145%
  • OI
    ONE ISRAEL FUND LTD
    3× · 2017–2020 · $33k · revenue +113%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $29k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAF YOMI ADVANCEMENT FORUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +74%
  • JU
    Jewish Unity International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +448%
  • CL
    Chabad Lubvitch of Vermont
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
American Friends of Yeshivat Nachalat Yossef

The organization will provide financial assistance to educational institutions that promote the observance of the jewish religion, its laws and traditions, and sacred texts, including yeshivat nachalat yossef, located in jerusalem, israel.

Religion
2
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
3
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
4
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
5
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
7
Sherit Isroel
—
8
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.

International
9
University of Judaism Foundation
—
10
American Friends of Amaleh Shel Torah Inc

None

Education
11
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
12
American Friends of Yeshivas Temimei Darech

To assist with providing Jewish education through support of Orthodox schools offering Torah studies.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Mesila International Inc (prev Irgun Siddur Chovos). 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

35 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. 35 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
25/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TORAH ACADEMY INC: $100,000 · OtherTORAH ACADEMY INCChabad Lubavitch of VT: $53,600 · OtherChabad Lubavitch of VTChabad Lubavitch of Vermont: $33,400 · OtherChabad Lubavitch of VermontPEF Endowment Fund: $17,200 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM: $17,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · Other+44 more: $126,080 · Other+44 moreCentral Fund of Israel: $183,400 · InternationalCentral Fund of IsraelONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $33,000 · InternationalONE ISRAEL FUND LTDTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · International+5 more: $17,740 · International+5 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC: $29,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIE…CHOFETZ CHAIM OF LAKEWOOD: $16,000 · ReligionCHOFETZ CHAIM…MINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · ReligionMINCHAS ASHER…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAF YOMI ADVANCEMENT FORUM INC: $10,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIE…Jewish Unity International Inc: $10,000 · ReligionJewish Unity …JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT INC: $6,400 · ReligionJEWISH COMMUN…Mercaz Beth Jacob in Eretz Yisroel: $5,000 · Religion+3 more: $2,360 · ReligionIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $18,000 · Human ServicesMesila International Inc (prev Irgun Siddur Chovos): $7,540 · Human ServicesAmerican Friends of The Rabbinical College Kol Torah Inc: $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JACOBS LADDER INC: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,760 · PhilanthropyYeshivat Ashreinu Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ROUTE TO ROOTS CORPORATION: $4,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,400 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GIVES INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $11,000 · Youth Development
Other$363,480International$243,140Religion$93,760Human Services$25,540Education$24,600Philanthropy$19,160Youth Development$11,000

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 budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $183,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetONE ISRAEL FUND LTD: $33,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS MONTREAL INC: $29,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetIsrael Select Charity Fund Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR DAYANIM: $17,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHOFETZ CHAIM OF LAKEWOOD: $16,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMINCHAS ASHER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Friends of The Rabbinical College Kol Torah Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Friends of Migdal OHR: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAF YOMI ADVANCEMENT FORUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetERASE PTSD NOW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Unity International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMesila International Inc (prev Irgun Siddur Chovos): $7,540 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INC: $5,760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI: $5,140 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYeshivat Ashreinu Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NER YAAKOV INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMercaz Beth Jacob in Eretz Yisroel: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMIT CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JACOBS LADDER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE ROUTE TO ROOTS CORPORATION: $4,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEZER MIZION: $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYAD YISROEL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNE EMAN FOUNDATION USA: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVATH KEREM B'YAVNEH INC: $1,540 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION OF ISRAEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIM INC: $360 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundAssociated Jewish Cha…The Ojc FundThe Jimmy and Berta K…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Ahavas Avraham Founda…FjcJewish Community Foun…The Slomo and Cindy S…Alyad Foundation IncJewish Community Foun…Community Foundation …
Jewish Communal FundNY26.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Ojc Fund · The Jimmy and Berta Khezrie Charitable Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Ahavas Avraham Foundation · Fjc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation Inc · Alyad Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    10get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Sandra & Mitchell Knisbacher Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 79 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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