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Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$127k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthEmploymentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$127k13%
FY202313$95k15%
FY202214$96k43%
FY202112$63k33%
FY202012$93k25%
FY201914$76k50%
FY201812$80k50%
FY201711$97kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$167kEducation$162kHealth$104kArts & Culture$90kHousing & Shelter$72kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$27kReligion$23kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wellsboro Foundation Inc$157,441822%
Wellsboro Area Education Foundation$64,418521%
Tioga County Homeless Initiative$62,50046%
Deane Center for the Performing Arts Inc$50,00086%
Susquehanna Health Foundation$40,0003n/a
The Learning Tree of Wellsboro$32,50846%
Wellsboro Elementary PTO$29,500316%
Wellsboro Teen Center Inc$17,1557n/a
Tioga County Partnership for Community Health$12,50012%
Wellsboro Community Concert Association$12,0008n/a
Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wellsboro Foundation Inc$157,441822%
Wellsboro Area Education Foundation$64,418521%
Tioga County Homeless Initiative$62,50046%
Deane Center for the Performing Arts Inc$50,00086%
Susquehanna Health Foundation$40,0003n/a
The Learning Tree of Wellsboro$32,50846%
Wellsboro Elementary PTO$29,500316%
Wellsboro Teen Center Inc$17,1557n/a
Tioga County Partnership for Community Health$12,50012%
Wellsboro Community Concert Association$12,0008n/a
Wellsboro Little League$11,60022%
Wellsboro Shared Homes Inc$9,06721%
Endless Mountain Music Festival Inc$7,50031%
Wellsboro Area School District$6,2501n/a
Wellsboro Cemetery Company$6,25013%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Twin Tiers$5,00021%
Tioga County Cat Project$5,0001n/a
Laurel Mountain K9 Search & Rescue$4,5003n/a
Wellsboro Glass Historical Association$3,7502n/a
His Thousand Hills Inc$3,50012%
Wellsboro Area Youth Soccer$2,5001n/a
Pa-Grand Canyon Repeater Group$1,9771n/a
Tioga County Firemens Association Incorporated$1,6731n/a
Haven of Tioga County$1,50010%
Upper Pine Creek Sportsmen Association$1,5001n/a
Partners in Progress Inc$1,30020%
Hamilton Gibson Productions Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWellsboro Foundation Inc: $157,441 over 8y, 22% of budgetWellsboro Area Education Foundation: $64,418 over 5y, 21% of budgetTioga County Homeless Initiative: $62,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetDeane Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $50,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetThe Learning Tree of Wellsboro: $32,508 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetWellsboro Elementary PTO: $29,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetTioga County Partnership for Community Health: $12,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWellsboro Little League: $11,600 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWellsboro Shared Homes Inc: $9,067 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEndless Mountain Music Festival Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWellsboro Cemetery Company: $6,250 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Twin Tiers: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHis Thousand Hills Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHaven of Tioga County: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPartners in Progress Inc: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Gibson Productions Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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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 16.

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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.

Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet FoundationPA47.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation · Horace B Packer Foundation Inc · Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation · Dunham Family Foundation · David G Patterson Foundation · Deerfield Charitable Trust · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation?

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About Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation

How much does Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation give?
Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $127,284 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (23%), Education (22%), Health (14%).
Who are Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wellsboro Foundation Inc ($157k), Wellsboro Area Education Foundation ($64k), Tioga County Homeless Initiative ($63k).
Does Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation, Horace B Packer Foundation Inc, Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation.
Where is Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation based?
Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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