Connecticut · Nonprofit
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,775 to it, the largest being DANIEL CHILLEMI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8B
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $3.1B
What Knights of Columbus does
Mission
Knights of Columbus is a catholic fraternal organization dedicated to promoting and conducting educational, charitable, religious and social welfare works, rendering mutual aid and assistance to sick and needy members and their families and providing insurance products and annuities to benefit members, wives and children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Programs for the payment of irc sec. 501(c)(8) benefits to members, wives and their dependents. Knights of Columbus is a catholic family fraternal service organization with over 2.0 million members, founded in 1882 for the following purposes: (a) rendering aid to its members, their families and beneficiaries of members and their families; (b) rendering mutual aid and assistance to its sick, disabled and needy members and their families; (c) promoting social work among its members and their families; and (d) promoting and conducting educational, charitable, religious and social welfare, war relief and welfare and public relief work.to more effectively carry out its purposes the corporation, a connecticut specially chartered corporation without capital stock, provides coverage for life insurance, long term care, disability income and annuity benefits to members, wives, widows and minor children principally in the united states and canada. The total irc sec. 501(c)(8) benefits accrued to members of $1,982,553,324 were incurred for the purpose for which the organization is exempt. In 2023, 22,186 death claims were incurred. The average size of a life insurance certificate is $71,920.…
$1,982,553,324 spent$1,356,059,088 earned by the program82% of program spendingPrograms for expenses incurred necessary in the Knights of Columbus insurance and fraternal endeavors.
$412,297,677 spent17% of program spendingPrograms of assistance to other social action, educational, charitable, benevolent, moral and religious endeavors.
$33,093,918 spentof which $33,093,918 as grants$6,007,762 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,427,944,919.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $25.4B to $26.9B (+6%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $67 → $9k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 55% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
0% of KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 12% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 103 membership benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 103 membership benefit nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- Adams Street (Koc) LLC · disregarded
- Fmjm Rwl IV LLC · disregarded
- Medley Credit Strategies (Koc) LLC · disregarded
- 151 Rogers LLC · disregarded
- Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS (Connecticut) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,775 to it, the largest being DANIEL CHILLEMI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $63,775 in grants to KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS?
- DANIEL CHILLEMI CHARITABLE FOUNDATION IN is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing