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Why Knot Now 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT LOUISE HOUSE | $18,000 |
| ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TEXAS CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FUND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $2,000 |
| BIKE FOR NY HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| FLATWATER | $1,000 |
| UT HEALTH AUSTIN | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of your 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- VSVINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +59%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $13k · revenue +160%
- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXASone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TJTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +36%
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.
Austin Playhouse creates opportunities for artists and audiences to celebrate the human experience through professional theatrical productions that nourish minds, delight spirits, and enrich lives.
The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.
Aaro, a non-partisan thought leader for central texas, has worked behind the scenes on critical regional issues since 1980. the membership is an intentionally diverse group of central texas leaders drawn from business, industry, education,…
Womens Symphony League of Austin provides service and financial support for The Austin Symphony Orchestra and its programs, and offers educational opportunities for children and the community to further develop an appreciation of music.
Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.
We're here to inspire generations. we connect people and strengthen community by showcasing unforgettable performances across genres, providing life-changing arts education programs, and dreaming up magical experiences in iconic venues…
Austin Rainbow Theatre provides affordable theatre that focuses on creating belonging, reducing stigma, honoring diverse LGBTQIA+ history and stories, and amplifying LGBTQIA+ artist and community voices.
Austin Allies' mission is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area by partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve. Austin Allies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization started by…
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To inspire and enchant lives through a variety of theatrical experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence with our Resident Acting Company at the center
Good Work Austin's mission is to foster healthy careers in the local food and beverage industry through professional development and advocacy for more equitable practices.
The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Children - Austin and the most unlike its peers is Project Relo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 VINCARE SERVICES OF AUSTIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN THEATRE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Project RELO ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
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: United Way for Greater Austin · Better Business Bureau · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Why Knot Now 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.
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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