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THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $346,544 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($346,544). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$56k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$347k
Net assets
$678k
0/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What The Knowledge Foundation does

Program

  1. Science program - development of online textbook with a primary focus in artificial intelligence the material produced will be freely available to the public etc

    $51,917 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($100) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 100 ($100)2019 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 100 ($100) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 735441 ($735k) Expenses 37766 ($38k) Net assets 697675 ($698k)2022 Revenue 5594 ($6k) Expenses 10988 ($11k) Net assets 692281 ($692k)2023 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 13953 ($14k) Net assets 679285 ($679k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 206 ($206) Net assets 679089 ($679k)2025 Revenue 55651 ($56k) Expenses 52812 ($53k) Net assets 678260 ($678k)
2018201920212022202320242025
Revenue (55651)Expenses (52812)Net assets (678260)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 2021 to 2022, from $707k to $692k (−2%).

$100
$0
$707k
$692k
$679k
$679k
$678k
2018201920212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed33333333
Joined·+1+1+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1110000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE KNOWLEDGE 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.

Where its funders are

100% of THE KNOWLEDGE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $347k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve92.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)147% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION?
THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $346,544 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($346,544). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $346,544 in grants to THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $346,544 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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