How much did Knox County Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Knox County Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

campscoutsbuildingdonor designationmount vernon

2019

playgrounddonor designationmount vernon

2020

co-vidsurroundingequipmentfoodmount vernon

2021

relationshipsdonor designationmount vernon

2022

sciencefiresenior citizenscitizens sixtysixty oldold olderolder living

2023

forestcampscoutskeyfoodvillagepartners

2024

expansionkey

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k24 grants · $576k
$50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
$250k+4 grants · $1.5M

$36,575

Median grant

States reached

$116M

Total assets

Largest grants

Knox Development Partnership$500,000
The Salvation Army$392,542
Foundation for Knox Comm Hosp$320,900
Acacia Fraternity Foundation$275,000
Habitat for Humanity Knox Co$176,360
Schwab Charitable$160,869
United Way of Knox County$133,963
Interchurch Social Services$118,035
First Congreg United Church$100,073
Vista Village Inc$99,500
Kenyon College$86,750
Mt Vernon Nazarene Univ$71,176
Knox Co Regional Airport$60,100
Food for the Hungry$56,870
Woodward Development Corp$53,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$15M · 62 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$15M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+39%

Still filing today

60%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $597k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsFood & 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

KD
Knox Development Partnership
3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +147% · 100% of their budget
IS
Interchurch Social Services
7× · 2017–2024 · $889k · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget
YO
YMCA of Mount Vernon
8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +41%

Funded once

JB
Jacket Boosters Incgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue +89% · 46% of their budget
OC
Owl Creek Conservancygraduated
one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +57%
LS
Loundonville-Perrysville Schgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +195% · 25% of their budget

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.

John Knox Village

Enrich the lives of older adults through community living. "enriching lives, building community"

Human Services

Knox Heritage Inc

Dedicated to the preservation, restoration and transformation of architecturally and/or historically significant buildings, open spaces, and parks in knoxville and knox county.

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The Knox County Chamber of Commerce

The Knox County Chamber of Commerce is a private business organization and serves as a vehicle through which the business and professional community are organized to work together to define and solve community and economic development…

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Knox Co Council On Aging

To provide services for senior citizens in knox county

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Knox College

To provide a liberal arts education to students from diverse backgrounds.

Education

Knox County Foundation

To improve the quality of life in Knox County through planned charitable giving. To provide a vehicle for donors of varied interests to support charitable and community activities. To assess and respond to emerging and changing community…

Philanthropy

Knox Partnership for Arts and

Kpac's purpose is to: (i) support the performing arts and the heritage of knox county beginning with the renovation, restoration and operation of the woodward opera house; and (ii) to engage in any lawful art or activity permitted under…

Arts & Culture

Knox Inc

Using horticulture as a catalyst for community engagement, KNOX forges partnerships between residents, businesses, and government, providing leadership to build stronger, greener, healthier and more beautiful neighborhoods in Hartford.

Recreation & Sports

Knoxville Hospital & Clinics Foundation

To support knoxville community hospital, inc. by providing necessary financial resources.

Philanthropy

Knox County Farm Bureau

Promote the understanding of agriculture in our community to improve the profitability of farmers and enrich the quality of life in knox county.

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The Knox Foundation

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District Council of Knoxville

Committed to serving members of our parish and our larger community with outreach, financial support and prayer

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation of the Catholic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/99

the rest of the field

10%

1,030/9,837

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.

05the grantee network

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/64

Grantees still filing

45/64

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$8,215,868Public Safety & Disaster$2,611,236Human Services$2,276,177Education$1,975,819Community Improvement$1,500,000Health$431,026Recreation & Sports$403,596

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

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.

The Ariel FoundationOH52.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ariel Foundation · United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · Licking County Foundation Inc · The Foundation of the Catholic · The Burgett Family Foundation · Elizabeth Ring Mather · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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 organisation Knox County Foundation 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Mount Vernon Arts Consortium.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 852208856 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Mount Vernon Arts Consortium, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Knox County Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Knox County Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Knox County Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Knox County Foundation?

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Knox County Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

64 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Knox County Foundation?

More from the funding graph