Florida · Private foundation
William S Knight Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations William S Knight Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $2.1M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $809k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $1.6M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.5M | 52% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $1.5M | 70% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $904k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Country Classical Academy Inc | $1,700,000 | 5 | 6% |
| College of the Ozarks | $1,250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Benedictine College | $777,480 | 4 | 0% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $600,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Badger Institute Inc | $440,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Prager University Foundation | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Brodhead Historical Society Inc | $340,358 | 3 | n/a |
| Young America's Foundation | $315,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Real Clear Foundation | $265,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Institute for Reforming Government Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 5% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William S Knight Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Donors Trust Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Adolph Coors Foundation · Neese Family Foundation Inc · The Dunn Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Carol and Richard Bayerlein Fdn Ltd · Duane & Dorothy Bluemke Foundation Ltd · Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation · The Roe Foundation
How this is measured
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About William S Knight Foundation Inc
- How much does William S Knight Foundation Inc give?
- William S Knight Foundation Inc reported 29 grants totaling $2,214,240 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does William S Knight Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Public Benefit (17%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are William S Knight Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lake Country Classical Academy Inc ($1.7M), College of the Ozarks ($1.3M), Benedictine College ($777k).
- Does William S Knight Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William S Knight Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William S Knight Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bradley Impact Fund Inc, Donors Trust Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.
- Where is William S Knight Foundation Inc based?
- William S Knight Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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