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William & Rachel Knobler Foundation Inc at a glance

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William & Rachel Knobler Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2021
14
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of William & Rachel Knobler Foundation Inc’s FY2023 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year William & Rachel Knobler Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

14
’18
12
’19
14
’20
13
’21
10
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Philanthropy$656kEducation$56kInternational$45kMembership Benefit$17kArts & Culture$15kReligion$13kHousing & Shelter$10kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2021 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k13 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITERACY INC$16,500
THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE INC$6,000
THE ACTORS FUND$5,000
STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE$4,950
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$2,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$1,550
THE DOE FUND$1,000
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$900
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK$450
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$350
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$350
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$200
ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$200
ALM CHARITIES$160
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 (FY18–22, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE RETREAT EMERGENCY: $1k → 7%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $900 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $880 → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $800 → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $9k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $6k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 17%THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $1k → 17%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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$175k · 21 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$175k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+33%

Still filing today

81%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsMembership BenefitOther
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

  • LI
    LITERACY INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $36k · revenue +43%
  • WO
    WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $18k · revenue +27%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY VIA DTC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • TC
    THE CITY COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -55%
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
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
2
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
3
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
6
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
7
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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8
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

—
9
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
10
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is New York Historical Society. 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

24 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. 24 of the 34 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $625,645 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+4 more: $30,870 · PhilanthropyLITERACY INC: $35,690 · EducationLITERACY I…WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $25,138 · EducationWORLDWIDE …THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $13,500 · EducationTHE FOUNDA…+1 more: $1,100 · EducationSTEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE: $13,425 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $7,500 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER: $3,100 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: $3,058 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY VIA DTC: $2,863 · OtherTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $2,500 · OtherTHE DOE FUND INC: $2,000 · Other+7 more: $2,915 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $20,030 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,580 · Human ServicesRetreat Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $17,000 · Membership BenefitNew York Historical Society: $5,790 · Arts & CultureBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,285 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,475 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $1,130 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $600 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $389 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,750 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$656,515Education$75,428Other$37,361Human Services$23,610Membership Benefit$17,000Arts & Culture$11,669Recreation & Sports$5,750

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 budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $625,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY INC: $35,690 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION: $25,138 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $20,030 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $5,790 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $2,580 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY COLLEGE FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,285 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $1,475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $1,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $389 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALM CHARITIES INC: $320 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 William & Rachel Knobler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Rachel Knobler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 34 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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