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Knitted Knockers Support Foundation

Knitted Knockers Support Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,064 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($49,631). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$214k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$145k
Net assets
$234k
6/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Knitted Knockers Support Foundation does

Mission

Connect volunter knitters with breast cancer survivors, offering free alternatives to traditional breast prothesis.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide free breast prostheses to women who have had a mastectomy. A website, knittedknockers.org is maintained where women can go online and order their free knitted knockers. These knocker orders are fulfilled by volunteers throughout the country.Knitted Knockers Support Foundation (KKSF) has created and provided through a network of volunteers over 1,095,462 knitted knockers through 2025. Media, Speaking Engagements and social media are utilized to help spread the word to recruit volunteers as well as reach out to the women who can use these gifts of comfort and dignity. Traditional breast prosthetics can be hot, heavy, expensive and cant be worn for some time after surgery. Knitted Knockers are soft, light, huggable, can be worn in a regular bra and are free. There are over 100,000 mastectomies done a year in the US many of whom will wear a prostheses for at least awhile. The demand for knitted knockers has been huge with over 13,000 a month currently being provided. Knitted Knockers utilizes Facebook (42,000 followers), Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to help spread the word reaching out to the hundreds of thousands of women who have had a mastectomy and not been reconstructed.…

    $57,955 spent
    50% of program spending
  2. Support Medical Professionals to provide to their patients. KKSF supports over 2,410 Medical Clinics by providing brochures, knockers and other information free to their patients. KKSF connects volunteer knitters and crocheters with registered medical clinics to provide knitted knockers directly to them. Currently over 1,451 clinics have been adopted by local groups and the remaining are supported by the network of volunteer State Suppliers filling requests for knockers as they come in from their states. Medical Clinics are reached by attending medical conferences to increase awareness in the medical community about the availability of this service for their patients. Happy recipients of knitted knockers also share with their physicians and encourage them to register with us.

    $30,592 spent
    26% of program spending
  3. Recruit knitters and crocheters. Our programs exist to inspire and equip thousands of volunteer knitters and crocheters to provide the inventory of knitted knockers to provide to the women requesting them through their own communities, medical clinics or nationally. This has occurred through the utilization of 197 State Providers who fill orders from their various states that come in through knittedknockers.org and over 6,780 registered groups of knitters and crocheters donating over 502,000 hours in 2025. Volunteers are recruited by going to crafting conventions where thousands of knitters and crocheters convene to enjoy their craft as well as manufacturers of yarn and needles thereby expanding the reach to potential volunteers to use their crafting skills to help others as well as word of mouth. Knittedknockers.org provides patterns for knitters and crocheters (downloaded over 2,305,000 times), video tutorials on how to make great knockers, videos about knitted knockers (viewed over 750,000 times), and information for medical clinics on how to register and provide this service free to their patients. It is a one stop place for how to request free knitted knockers and how to…

    $28,021 spent
    24% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $116,568.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($155k) Expenses 100 ($130k) Net assets 100 ($57k)2018 Revenue 67 ($103k) Expenses 96 ($124k) Net assets 63 ($36k)2019 Revenue 83 ($128k) Expenses 69 ($90k) Net assets 130 ($74k)2020 Revenue 59 ($92k) Expenses 54 ($70k) Net assets 169 ($96k)2021 Revenue 68 ($105k) Expenses 62 ($80k) Net assets 212 ($121k)2022 Revenue 61 ($94k) Expenses 80 ($104k) Net assets 196 ($112k)2023 Revenue 79 ($122k) Expenses 86 ($111k) Net assets 214 ($122k)2024 Revenue 85 ($131k) Expenses 85 ($110k) Net assets 251 ($143k)2025 Revenue 138 ($214k) Expenses 104 ($135k) Net assets 411 ($234k)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (104)Net assets (411)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $147k to $236k (+61%).

$60k
$38k
$77k
$99k
$123k
$114k
$125k
$147k
$236k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of Knitted Knockers Support Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
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−$21k
’18
$38k
’19
$22k
’20
$25k
’21
−$9k
’22
$10k
’23
$21k
’24
$79k
’25
21
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reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $15k → $9k.

7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 Knitted Knockers Support Foundation’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

Knitted Knockers Support Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

93% 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 Knitted Knockers Support Foundation.

34%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 61% · 2019 94% · 2020 42% · 2021 61% · 2022 100% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.

“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

9% of Knitted Knockers Support Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

81% of Knitted Knockers Support Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 9 states.

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TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $117k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Knitted Knockers Support Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Knitted Knockers Support Foundation?
Knitted Knockers Support Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $145,064 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($49,631). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Knitted Knockers Support Foundation have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $145,064 in grants to Knitted Knockers Support Foundation, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Knitted Knockers Support Foundation?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $49,631 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Knitted Knockers Support Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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