Edward and Judith Knitter Family Charitable Foundation
Howell, MI · EIN 33-3505652. Reported 18 grants totalling $10,410 to 18 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Edward and Judith Knitter Family Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $300. Half of everything it gave fell between $150 and $600; the smallest was $50 and the largest $4,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Chu | Brighton, MI | $4,800 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Catholic Foundation | Lansing, MI | $900 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Capuchin Soup Kitchen | Detroit, MI | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catholic Bishop of Northern Alaska | Fairbanks, AK | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gleaners | Detroit, MI | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tunnel to Towers | Staten Island, NY | $360 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Autism Speaks | Washington, DC | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catholic Relief Services | Tipton, IA | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dominican Sisters of Mary | Ann Arbor, MI | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Homeboy Industries | Los Angeles, CA | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lupus Research Alliance | New York, NY | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| National Foundation for Cancer Rese | Rockville, MD | $300 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Orchard Lake Schools St Marys Prep | West Bloomfield, MI | $200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Autism Alliance of Michigan | Southfield, MI | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Wounded Warrior Project | Jacksonville, FL | $150 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Dominican Friars Foundation | New York, NY | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Student Statemanship Institute | Lansing, MI | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $50 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Chu
support local catholic parish - The Catholic Foundation
Deliver education and Roman Catholic Social Services in mid Michigan - Catholic Bishop of Northern Alaska
Support Outreach to indigenous population of Northern Alaska to deliver spiritual services - Tunnel to Towers
Support social services to injuresd first responders - Autism Speaks
Support of individuals with Autism - Catholic Relief Services
Deliver emergency medical housing and food services
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 8 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Where its money goes
74% of its giving went to organizations in Michigan. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $300. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Michigan.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Edward and Judith Knitter Family Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 8231 Foldenauer Dr, Howell, MI, 48843. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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