Connecticut · Nonprofit
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,992,251 to it, the largest being The 85 Fund ($39,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$123M
Recipients
527
Contributions on record
$96M
Donors on record
43
Payments out are 1.28x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Bradley Impact Fund Incshared funders
- Knights of Columbus Charities USA Incportfolio match
- The Ferry Family Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $190k → $26M.
20 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 CHARITABLE FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bradley Impact Fund Incshared fundersWI · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Knights of Columbus Charities USA Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ferry Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Duffy Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vertuassets Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Napa Institute Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William H & Lois J McEssy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illig Family Foundation Cust Pcmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William E & Ann L Swan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trusted Fraternal Lifeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitts Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kpmg US Foundation Incshared fundersNJ · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Rbn Foundation · exempt
- Kccf Support Foundation · exempt
- Kccf Charitable Trust I · exempt
- Kccf Charitable Trust II · exempt
- The Altum Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC?
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,992,251 to it, the largest being The 85 Fund ($39,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $94,992,251 in grants to KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC?
- The 85 Fund is the largest funder on record, with $39,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC 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 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing