Virginia · Public charity
Community Knights Inc
To build a truly inclusive community by removing barriers for engagement for people with disabilities, facilitating access and accomodations to increase soft skills, providing disability training and creating innovative programs to meet the communitys needs.
- $65k
- Granted FY2021
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $11k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $5,900
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $5,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $404k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Community Knights Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 2 | $11k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $51k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $177k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $217k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $321k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport News City Schools | $278,175 | 4 | n/a |
| Hampton City Schools | $182,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Thrive Peninsula Formerly Duco | $29,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Peninsula Sports Fundraising | $26,680 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Volunteer Corps of Hampton Roads Inc | $25,800 | 3 | 10% |
| Saint Kateri Tekawitha | $24,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Knights of Columbus | $23,650 | 2 | n/a |
| Colony Pool | $23,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Intentional Innovation Foundation Inc | $14,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula Inc | $12,800 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport News City Schools | $278,175 | 4 | n/a |
| Hampton City Schools | $182,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Thrive Peninsula Formerly Duco | $29,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Peninsula Sports Fundraising | $26,680 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth Volunteer Corps of Hampton Roads Inc | $25,800 | 3 | 10% |
| Saint Kateri Tekawitha | $24,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Knights of Columbus | $23,650 | 2 | n/a |
| Colony Pool | $23,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Intentional Innovation Foundation Inc | $14,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula Inc | $12,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Healthy Families Partnership Inc | $12,750 | 2 | 9% |
| Virginia Peninsula Foodbank | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Housing Development Corporation of Hampton Roads | $11,350 | 2 | 2% |
| Peninsula Softball | $9,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Virginia Eagles Athletic Association | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Hampton-Newport Newsva Alumni Chapter Kappa | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dream Catchers | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Virginia Peninsula Chamber Foundation Inc | $6,650 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Challenge Inc | $6,450 | 1 | 1% |
| Peninsula Literacy Council Inc | $6,150 | 1 | 5% |
| New Horizons Regional Education Ctr | $5,900 | 1 | n/a |
| Hampton University | $5,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Elf Patrol Incorporated | $5,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Special Olympics Virginia Inc | $5,650 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Congress of Parents and Teachers | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Downtown Hampton Child Care Council Inc | $5,420 | 1 | 0% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $5,200 | 1 | 0% |
| The Degood Foundation | $5,150 | 1 | n/a |
| Newsome-Bailey Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Community Knights Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc · Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc · Sentara Health · Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcu · United Way of the Virginia Peninsula · The Blocker Foundation · Petters Family Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Community Knights Inc
- How much does Community Knights Inc give?
- Community Knights Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $10,900, out of $65,130 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Community Knights Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (64%), Recreation & Sports (9%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Community Knights Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Newport News City Schools ($278k), Hampton City Schools ($182k), Thrive Peninsula Formerly Duco ($29k).
- Does Community Knights Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Knights Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Bernardine Franciscan Sisters Foundation Inc, Peninsula Community Foundation of Virginia Inc.
- Where is Community Knights Inc based?
- Community Knights Inc is based in VA.
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