· Public charity
Knoxville Cbid Management Corporation Dba Downtown Knoxville Alliance
Development of the downtown area of knoxville.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOURISH KNOXVILLE | $15,000 |
| ASIAN FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| OLD CITY MARKET | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BIG EARS | $10,000 |
| EAST TN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| DOGWOOD ARTS | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DADOGWOOD ARTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +24%
- NKNourish Knoxville Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +197%
- BEBIG EARS FESTIVAL3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- TTTENNESSEE THEATREone grant, 2024 · $300k
- FKFORT KID PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $255k
- YYWCAone grant, 2024 · $250k
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.
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.
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…
The mission of the arts & culture alliance of greater knoxville is to serve and support a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions.
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…
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
To hold, maintain, renovate and improve certain real property known as the historic tennessee theatre located in knoxville tennessee, in order to provide a performing arts venue for the community and other entities for historic and…
To promote and preserve jazz music.
Dedicated to bringing nationally and internationally know performing artist and ensembles to calhoun county. the organization exist to stimulate cultural interst and to enhance the quality of life of the citizens of the area by making…
Knox Development Partnership partners with key community members including Knox County Foundation, Ariel Foundation and Area Development Foundation to further economic development in Knox County through key investments in real estate and…
The Arts Consortium marketed and supported the '2024 Mount Vernon Presents Season' of community arts and entertainment events. Through facilitation of quarterly local art partner meetings, planning and collaboration on a shared community…
Knoxville Childrens Theatre, Inc. produces meaningful theatrical productions for children and families and serves the community through outreach and educational programs.
To promote the area and business
The Kirksville Arts Association endeavors to partner and serve in promoting a vigorous economic and cultural arena in which to foster the arts for Northeast Missouri rural communities.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DOGWOOD ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Nourish Knoxville Inc ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG EARS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds East Tennessee Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD CITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOLA HORA LATINA ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Knox County Public Library ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY ↗
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: East Tennessee Foundation · The Aslan Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Knoxville Cbid Management Corporation Dba Downtown Knoxville Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knoxville Cbid Management Corporation Dba Downtown Knoxville Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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