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Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65

To foster and encourage a higher degree of skill and efficiency among members. To cultivate friendship among members. To promote harmonious relations between firefighters and their employer. To maintain proper remuneration for duty performed and to elevate the moral,intellectual, social and economic welfare of its members.

$209k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$189k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$48,457
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$382k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$189k0%
FY20249$151k0%
FY20239$259k11%
FY202210$209k10%
FY202110$250k10%
FY20209$141k0%
FY201910$152k20%
FY20189$152k33%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.0MPublic Safety & Disaster$186kPublic Benefit$182kRecreation & Sports$148kEducation$24kHuman Services$14kYouth Development$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($286k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $245,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEast Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc: $175,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $165,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $130,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $123,724 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $110,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $13,776 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTennessee Firefighters Burn Foundat: $13,000 over 2y, 41% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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How do I get to Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65?

Find your warmest path to Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 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.

About Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65

How much does Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 give?
Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 reported 10 itemized grants totaling $189,207, out of $209,451 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%), Public Benefit (11%).
Who are Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($245k), Ut Medical Center Cancer Institute ($225k), East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc ($175k).
Does Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 based?
Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65 is based in TN.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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