How much does Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville give?

Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville reported 41 itemized grants totaling $951,168, out of $1,240,466 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Environment (1%), Education (0%).

Who are Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Tennessee ($550k), Knoxville Museum of Art ($367k), Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated ($367k).

Does Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, The Aslan Foundation, Haslam Family Foundation Inc.

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Tennessee · Public charity

Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville

The mission of the arts & culture alliance of greater knoxville is to serve and support a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 41
Itemized grants FY2025: 38
Organizations funded FY2024: 11%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $951k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $92,500
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 45; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	40	$951k	15%
FY2024	38	$1.2M	11%
FY2023	45	$1.6M	44%
FY2022	22	$400k	0%
FY2021	22	$400k	0%
FY2020	23	$410k	4%
FY2019	23	$386k	13%
FY2018	22	$380k	5%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.1MEnvironment$69kEducation$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The University of Tennessee	$550,188	9	n/a
Knoxville Museum of Art	$367,351	9	3%
Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated	$367,351	9	2%
Knoxville Opera Company	$320,950	9	4%
Dogwood Arts Inc	$318,016	9	5%
East Tn Historical Society	$303,773	9	n/a
Bijou Theatre Center	$271,961	9	5%
Cumberland Communities Communications Corporation	$215,853	9	9%
Governor William Blount Mansion	$214,661	9	20%
Hazen Historical Museum Foundation Inc	$211,841	9	37%

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All grantees of Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The University of Tennessee	$550,188	9	n/a
Knoxville Museum of Art	$367,351	9	3%
Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated	$367,351	9	2%
Knoxville Opera Company	$320,950	9	4%
Dogwood Arts Inc	$318,016	9	5%
East Tn Historical Society	$303,773	9	n/a
Bijou Theatre Center	$271,961	9	5%
Cumberland Communities Communications Corporation	$215,853	9	9%
Governor William Blount Mansion	$214,661	9	20%
Hazen Historical Museum Foundation Inc	$211,841	9	37%
Big Ears Festival	$211,500	7	6%
Governor John Sevier Memorial Assoc	$199,427	9	25%
Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation	$190,000	9	0%
James Whites Fort	$175,847	9	20%
Tennessee Stage Company	$170,000	9	44%
Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities	$121,008	8	3%
Hola Hora Latina	$117,000	9	47%
Jubilee Community Arts Inc	$112,930	7	42%
Knox Heritage Inc	$112,258	6	4%
Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair	$105,551	9	4%
Ijams Nature Center Inc	$104,670	9	1%
Knoxville Jazz Orchestra	$87,000	9	8%
Appalachian Equality Chorus	$85,493	4	23%
The Wordplayers	$83,900	3	16%
Dr Martin Luther King Commemorative	$83,000	8	14%
Asian Culture Center of Tennessee	$80,000	2	12%
The Bottom	$80,000	3	12%
Knoxville Childrens Theatre Inc	$80,000	3	8%
Marble City Opera	$80,000	3	33%
Beck Cultural Exchange Center Inc	$80,000	3	10%
Theatre Knoxville Inc	$59,000	3	21%
Knox County Museum of Education	$54,874	2	96%
Knox Makers	$42,925	3	14%
Joy of Music Youth Music School Corporation	$40,000	1	4%
River and Rail Theatre Company	$40,000	1	8%
Community School of the Arts	$40,000	3	9%
East Tennessee Public Communications Corporation	$40,000	2	0%
Community Television of Knoxville	$39,750	1	5%
Foothills Craft Guild Inc	$37,832	1	35%
Knoxville History Project	$36,000	1	14%
Museum of Infinite Outcomes	$30,780	3	n/a
Cattywampus Puppet Council	$20,000	1	13%
Black in Appalachia	$15,000	2	3%
Oak Ridge Community Playhouse	$15,000	1	3%
Union County Opry	$15,000	1	41%
Campbell Culture Coalition	$15,000	1	10%
Monroe Area Council for the Arts	$14,968	1	11%
Fourth & Gill Neighborhood Organization	$14,523	1	11%
Nief-Norf	$11,000	1	12%
Smoky Mountain Quilters of Tennessee	$9,500	1	18%
Knoxville Writers Guild	$7,925	1	n/a
Townsend Artisan Guild	$7,099	1	n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 47.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

East Tennessee FoundationTN49.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Tennessee Foundation · The Aslan Foundation · Haslam Family Foundation Inc · Lamp Foundation · Humanities Tennessee · Regal Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville

How much does Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville give?: Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville reported 41 itemized grants totaling $951,168, out of $1,240,466 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Environment (1%), Education (0%).
Who are Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Tennessee ($550k), Knoxville Museum of Art ($367k), Knoxville Symphony Society Incorporated ($367k).
Does Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Tennessee Foundation, The Aslan Foundation, Haslam Family Foundation Inc.
Where is Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville based?: Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville is based in TN.