· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $842k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOGWOOD ARTS FESTIVAL | $92,500 |
| CLARENCE BROWN THEATRE | $41,000 |
| MARBLE SPRINGS STATE HISTORIC SITE | $35,000 |
| BLOUNT MANSION | $35,000 |
| MABRY-HAZEN HOUSE | $35,000 |
| JAMES WHITE FORT | $35,000 |
| TN STAGE COMPANY | $33,600 |
| KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY | $31,250 |
| KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $31,250 |
| KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $31,250 |
| KNOX HERITAGE INC | $29,275 |
| BIG EARS FESTIVAL | $29,000 |
| BIJOU THEATRE CENTER | $24,560 |
| WORD PLAYERS | $23,900 |
| EAST TN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $22,050 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KMKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +41%
- KSKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +34%
- DADOGWOOD ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $318k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- JOJOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -9%
- RARIVER AND RAIL THEATRE COMPANYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +190%
- CTCOMMUNITY TELEVISION OF KNOXVILLEone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 57 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIJOU THEATRE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR WILLIAM BLOUNT MANSION ↗
- Who funds HAZEN HISTORICAL MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG EARS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Governor John Sevier Memorial Assoc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC TENNESSEE THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES WHITES FORT ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF TENNESSEE ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds HOLA HORA LATINA ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE VALLEY AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL FAIR ↗
- Who funds IJAMS NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Knoxville Jazz Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Equality Chorus ↗
- Who funds THE WORDPLAYERS ↗
- Who funds Dr Martin Luther King Commemorative ↗
- Who funds ASIAN CULTURE CENTER OF TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds The Bottom ↗
- Who funds Knoxville Childrens Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MARBLE CITY OPERA ↗
- Who funds BECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE KNOXVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Knox County Museum of Education ↗
- Who funds KNOX MAKERS ↗
- Who funds JOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RIVER AND RAIL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TELEVISION OF KNOXVILLE ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CRAFT GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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