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Knox County Foundation

To improve the quality of life in Knox County through planned charitable giving.

$5.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.4MHuman Services$3.0MEducation$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.9MReligion$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.0MPhilanthropy$814kArts & Culture$769kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $3,384,821, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,311,478 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,926,657 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $576k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
$36,575
Median grant
5
States reached
$116M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Faith in Action Caregivers: $6k → 17%Sanctuary Community Action: $15k → 12%Sanctuary Community Action: $15k → 12%Sanctuary Community Action: $15k → 12%Sanctuary Community Action: $15k → 12%TouchPointe Marriage & Family: $35k → 12%TouchPointe Marriage & Family: $21k → 12%Bladensburg Comm Heritage: $108k → 12%Bladensburg Comm Heritage: $50k → 12%Bladensburg Comm Heritage: $15k → 12%Bladensburg Comm Heritage: $10k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $349k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $320k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $313k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $194k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $118k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $109k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $81k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $70k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $53k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $49k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $46k → 12%YMCA of Mount Vernon: $38k → 12%The Station Break: $35k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $28k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $21k → 12%Hope Now Inc: $21k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $17k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $15k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $15k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $14k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $14k → 12%Hope Now Inc: $12k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $12k → 12%American Red Cross of Knox Co: $11k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $9k → 12%Interchurch Social Services: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NE
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 61 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
39

Total granted

$15M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+15%

Still filing today

61%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KD
    KNOX DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +147% · 100% of their budget
  • IS
    INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX
    7× · 2017–2024 · $889k · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • JB
    JACKET BOOSTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue +61% · 46% of their budget
  • OC
    OWL CREEK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +12%
  • LS
    LOUDONVILLE-PERRYSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -11% · 25% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
Knox County Land Reutilization Corporati

The knox county land reutilization corporation (the "land bank") strengthens neighborhoods and preserves property values by strategically returning vacant, abandoned, tax-delinquent, and other properties to their most productive, and…

Community Improvement
4
United Way of Knox County Indiana Inc

The mission of the organization is to develop teamwork among the social service agencies serving knox county and their constituencies in the interest of the financial support of such agencies, and the effective planning and execution of…

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5
Knox Community Hospital

The mission of knox community hospital is to provide compassionate healthcare service that exceeds the expectations of our community. as the only hospital in knox county, we offer a wide spectrum of healthcare services to every person who…

Health
6
Knox Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc

Form 990, part i, line 1, description of organization mission: beginning with the renovation, restoration and operation of the woodward opera house; and (ii) to engage in any lawful art or activity permitted under the ohio revised code…

Arts & Culture
7
The Knox Community Hospital Foundation

The mission of the foundation for knox community hospital is to establish and maintain relationships that generate philanthropic support for the hospital and to provide education and support for effective hospital advocacy and governance…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Maple Knoll Communities Inc

Maple knoll communities, inc. is recognized as a growing provider of outstanding senior communities and services that allows those we serve to thrive in a stimulating and dignified environment. this will be accomplished through creativity…

Human Services
9
Knox Winamac Community Health Centers Inc

It is the mission of knox-winamac community health centers to provide quality, primary health care services, accessible to persons in our community including the medically underinsured and uninsured.

Health
10
Knoxville Hospital & Clinics Foundation

To secure philanthrophic support from individuals, businesses, and organizations for the advancement of exceptional health care at knoxville hospital & clinics through advocacy, fundraising, and stewardship of contributions.

Health
11
Knoxville Museum of Art

The purpose of the knoxville museum of art is to support and promote public interest, awareness, knowledge and education in the visual arts in east tennessee . to this end, the corporation shall, among other things, develop permanent…

Arts & Culture
12
The Station Break

The station break is a designated community agency that advocates, promotes, and implements services appropriate to meet the on-going needs of the sixty and up population of knox county, ohio.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 108 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/65
Grantees still filing
43/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Congreg United Church: $718,651 · OtherFirst Congreg United ChurchThe Salvation Army: $556,271 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC: $516,622 · OtherUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INCKNOX COUNTY 4-H PLANNING COMMITTEE: $276,000 · OtherMOUNT VERNON ARTS CONSORTIUM INC: $275,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $275,065 · Other+75 more: $5,445,564 · Other+75 moreTHE KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,611,236 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE KNOX COMMUNI…INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX: $888,828 · Human ServicesINTERCHURCH SO…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO: $883,013 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…BLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $182,500 · Human ServicesBLADENSBURG CO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $131,536 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…+5 more: $190,300 · Human Services+5 moreKENYON COLLEGE: $694,995 · EducationKENYON COLLEG…Mount Vernon Nazarene University: $674,774 · EducationMount Vernon …Acacia Fraternity Foundation Inc: $375,000 · EducationAcacia Frater…Knox County Head Start Inc: $152,695 · EducationKnox County H…LOUDONVILLE-PERRYSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Education+3 more: $131,050 · Education+3 moreKNOX DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementKNOX DEVE…ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY: $288,726 · HealthTHE CORE CENTER: $50,000 · HealthFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $50,000 · HealthHOBBY HORSE HILL EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $30,260 · Health+1 more: $12,040 · HealthFOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY: $317,596 · Recreation & SportsHEART OF OHIO TRAIL INCORPORATED: $79,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $7,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$8,063,173Public Safety & Disaster$2,611,236Human Services$2,276,177Education$2,128,514Community Improvement$1,500,000Health$431,026Recreation & Sports$403,596

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,611,236 over 8y, 77% of budgetKNOX DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetINTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX: $888,828 over 7y, 36% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO: $883,013 over 8y, 13% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $694,995 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMount Vernon Nazarene University: $674,774 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC: $516,622 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetAcacia Fraternity Foundation Inc: $375,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY: $317,596 over 7y, 32% of budgetALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY: $288,726 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetFOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC: $275,065 over 8y, 20% of budgetMOUNT VERNON ARTS CONSORTIUM INC: $275,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY: $260,243 over 7y, 12% of budgetWOODWARD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $253,286 over 4y, 31% of budgetAREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $196,575 over 5y, 14% of budgetBLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $182,500 over 4y, 41% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KNOX COUNTY: $176,360 over 1y, 27% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $160,869 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKnox County Head Start Inc: $152,695 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKNOX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $144,014 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $131,536 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJACKET BOOSTERS INC: $110,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetOWL CREEK CONSERVANCY: $100,545 over 1y, 15% of budgetLOUDONVILLE-PERRYSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetVISTA VILLAGE INC: $99,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC: $99,158 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCENTERBURG SENIOR SERVICES INC: $96,909 over 2y, 18% of budgetMTVARTS INC: $84,400 over 6y, 11% of budgetKOKOSING GAP TRAIL INC: $82,531 over 6y, 31% of budgetHEART OF OHIO TRAIL INCORPORATED: $79,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetSCIENCE PLAY-SPACE INITIATIVE SPI: $65,550 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $60,237 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKNOX COUNTY LANDMARKS FOUNDATION IN: $60,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSANCTUARY COMMUNITY ACTION: $60,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetTOUCHPOINTE MARRIAGE & FAMILY RESOURCES: $56,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CORE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMOHICAN AREA COMMUNITY FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetOHIO DISTRICT 5 AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKNOX COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetTHE STATION BREAK: $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHeartbeat of Morrow County Inc: $31,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE WINTER SANCTUARY INC: $30,500 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetHOBBY HORSE HILL EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $30,260 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 THE KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KNOX DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds Acacia Fraternity Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT VERNON ARTS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds WOODWARD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Knox County Head Start Inc ↗
  • Who funds KNOX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds JACKET BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds OWL CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LOUDONVILLE-PERRYSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTERBURG SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗

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.

The Ariel FoundationUnited Way of Knox Co…Energy Cooperative Ro…Richard & Arline Land…Park National Corpora…Columbus FoundationPeoples Bank Foundati…The Burgett Family Fo…Licking County Founda…Ingram-White Castle F…The Foundation of the…Elizabeth Ring Mather…
The Ariel FoundationOH57.8× affinity25 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 · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · The Burgett Family Foundation · Licking County Foundation Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Knox County Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knox County Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 108 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 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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