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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
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Education$493kRecreation & Sports$71kYouth Development$63kReligion$48kHuman Services$45kScience & Tech$14kFood & Nutrition$12kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $10,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $65,130 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $54,230 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$5,900
Median grant
1
States reached
$416k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP$5,900
NEWSOME BAILEY PROJECT$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC: $11k → 17%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $9k → 17%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP: $6k → 17%THRIVE PENINSULA: $12k → 17%THRIVE PENINSULA: $9k → 17%THRIVE PENINSULA: $8k → 17%DOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$676k · 13 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$676k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+54%

Still filing today

54%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterScience & TechFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO
    3× · 2018–2020 · $29k · revenue +792%
  • YV
    YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $26k · revenue +275%
  • II
    INTENTIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $14k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENINSULA SOFTBALL
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
  • VE
    VIRGINIA EAGLES ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • HN
    HAMPTON-NEWPORT NEWSVA ALUMNI CHAPTER KAPPAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +84%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Peninsula Institute for Community Health

Providing medical and dental care to indigent patients.

Health
2
Hampton Roads Community Action Program Inc

A community action agency that provides early child development for disadvantaged preschool children and provides housing, shelter, and services for the needy.

Community Improvement
3
Hampton Public Library Foundation

Do well by doing good: help build libraries for the future the hampton public library foundation was founded in 1994 to receive donations and bequests from those who value and honor the public library. the need is great now for modern,…

Human Services
4
Hampton Roads Youth Foundation

Revenue was less than $50,000 in prior tax year.

Youth Development
5
Hampton Roads Executive Roundtable

To improve the region's trajectory of economic growth and competitiveness through thought leadership, establishing and monitoring the economic development and innovation strategy in an equitable manner, and fostering collaboration among…

Community Improvement
6
The Planning Council

To identify community needs, connect people with solutions and improve lives.

Human Services
7
Youth Sailing Virginia Inc

Youth sailing virginia's mission is to teach life skills to high school, middle school youth and their families in the commonwealth of virginia through safe, fun and competitive, recreational and educational community sailing programs with…

Recreation & Sports
8
Hunton Young Mens Christian Association

The William A.Hunton YMCA is a nonprofit voluntary health and welfare organization that operates a community center providing wellness and community services to the local community through day care, after school care, and a variety of…

9
Young Men's Christian Association of the Virginia Peninsulas

Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…

Human Services
10
Virginia Mentoring Partnership

Virginia mentoring partnership provides training and technical assistance to mentors and mentoring programs to increase the quality and quantity of mentoring for virginia's youth. the vision of vmp is that every child who needs a mentor…

Crime & Legal
11
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc

Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.

Crime & Legal
12
Virginia Beach City Public Schools Entrepreneurship and Business
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newsome-Bailey Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr13%20%5–10yr16%20%10–20yr14%30%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr14%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr13%13%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr14%17%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 10% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
10%
3/29
the rest of the field
17%
271/1,585

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
18/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Newport News City Schools — $278,175 · OtherNewport News City SchoolsHampton City Schools — $182,250 · OtherHampton City SchoolsPeninsula Sports Fundraising — $26,680 · OtherSaint Kateri Tekawitha — $24,600 · OtherKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS — $23,650 · OtherColony Pool — $23,500 · Other+9 more — $61,000 · Other+9 moreTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO — $29,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC — $25,800 · Human ServicesDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC — $5,420 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC — $12,800 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTHY FAMILIES PARTNERSHIP INC — $12,750 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DEGOOD FOUNDATION — $5,150 · Youth DevelopmentHAMPTON-NEWPORT NEWSVA ALUMNI CHAPTER KAPPA — $7,500 · EducationHAMPTON UNIVERSITY — $5,800 · EducationNEWSOME-BAILEY PROJECT INC — $5,000 · EducationHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAMPTON ROADS — $11,350 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $5,200 · Housing & ShelterINTENTIONAL INNOVATION FOUNDATION INC — $14,200 · Science & TechVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $11,500 · Food & NutritionSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc — $5,650 · Recreation & Sports
Other$619,855Human Services$60,220Youth Development$30,700Education$18,300Housing & Shelter$16,550Science & Tech$14,200Food & Nutrition$11,500Recreation & Sports$5,650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHRIVE PENINSULA FORMERLY DUCO — $29,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetYOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS OF HAMPTON ROADS INC — $25,800 over 3y, 10% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE VIRGINIA PENINSULA INC — $12,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY FAMILIES PARTNERSHIP INC — $12,750 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetVIRGINIA PENINSULA FOODBANK — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAMPTON ROADS — $11,350 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDREAM CATCHERS — $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH CHALLENGE INC — $6,450 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPENINSULA LITERACY COUNCIL INC — $6,150 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY — $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Virginia Inc — $5,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN HAMPTON CHILD CARE COUNCIL INC — $5,420 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC — $5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA23.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Community Knights Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Community Knights Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Community Knights Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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