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Lamp Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$107k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Arts & Culture$305kEducation$256kInternational$161kReligion$96kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$9kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$25,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE$13,930
ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY$6,500
CLARENCE BROWN THEATRE$5,000
MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION$5,000
KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART$3,500
FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$3,500
BECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER$3,000
VOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER$2,500
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE$2,500
AMADEUS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE$2,000
ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL$2,000
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 (FY18–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $4k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $3k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $1k → 12%KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE: $500 → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
CA
MO
AR
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$850k · 48 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
20

Total granted

$850k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+3%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +77%
  • BC
    BECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +281%
  • KS
    KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • ED
    EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF EAST TN
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • TL
    THE LINKS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • HT
    HEAVENLY TREASURES
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +3%

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
Knoxville College

Knoxville college is a private, church related coeducational liberal arts institution. the college is open to students of diverse backgrounds and cultures who seek a quality liberal arts education.

Education
2
Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Knox Concert Series Inc

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…

4
The Muse Knoxville

To inspire and empower all children through transformative learning experiences. our vision is to make our community the best place for all to learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
5
Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Knoxville Public Library

Public library for the benefit of the town providing library access and services for the community

7
Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum

Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.

Environment
8
Knoxville Science Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
9
Knoxville Museum of Art Foundation

To provide financial support for the knoxville museum of art.

Arts & Culture
10
Knoxville Academy of Medicine

The academy serves as the local medica society for physicians of knox county and surrounding counties in east tennessee. its purpose is to afford a medium for free discussion and exchange of ideas among physicians.

11
4 Market Square Inc

Primarily to spread the gospel of jesus christ in downtown knoxville, tennessee by serving the community of the greater knoxville area through the provision of services, resources, worship, teaching, fellowship and networking capabilities.

Religion
12
Knoxville Montessori Association Inc

Knoxville montessori association, inc. prepares children for the world. our goal is to help your child become an independent, responsible adult with a passionate lifelong love of learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Knoxville Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wordplayers. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr13%13%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr24%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr13%4%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr24%61%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,367

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

28 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. 28 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHCLARENCE BROWN THEATRE — $36,500 · OtherCLARENCE BROWN THEATREST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL — $32,300 · OtherST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALAMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE — $12,100 · OtherMott Community College — $11,000 · Other+42 more — $126,167 · Other+42 moreBECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER INC — $91,400 · Arts & CultureBECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENT…KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $38,000 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY …KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART — $33,350 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ARTKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY — $23,405 · Arts & CultureKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANYKNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT — $8,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $20,250 · Arts & Culture+8 moreROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE — $184,180 · EducationROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXV…WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE — $12,250 · EducationWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE+1 more — $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $156,500 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY IN …+2 more — $1,750 · InternationalKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $9,000 · Human ServicesLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY — $3,500 · Recreation & SportsVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER — $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$283,067Arts & Culture$214,405Education$201,430International$158,250Human Services$9,000Recreation & Sports$3,500Housing & Shelter$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE — $184,180 over 8y, 52% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $156,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER INC — $91,400 over 7y, 11% of budgetKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED — $38,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART — $33,350 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY — $23,405 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE — $12,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE — $12,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT — $8,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetKNOX HERITAGE INC — $7,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WORDPLAYERS — $7,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFlint Institute of Music — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMADEUS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE — $5,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY — $3,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE SCHOOL OF ARTS INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER MINISTRY CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOY OF MUSIC YOUTH MUSIC SCHOOL CORPORATION — $2,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts — $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEAVENLY TREASURES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER KNOXVILLEINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONY CLUB COMMUNITY FUND INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetORBIT VILLAGE PROJECT INC — $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bottom — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
  • Who funds BECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER INC
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE OPERA COMPANY
  • Who funds WEBB SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF KNOXVILLE
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE AREA URBAN LEAGUE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT
  • Who funds KNOX HERITAGE INC
  • Who funds THE WORDPLAYERS
  • Who funds Flint Institute of Music
  • Who funds AMADEUS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP KNOXVILLE INC
  • Who funds LAKESHORE PARK CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds BRIDGE REFUGEE SERVICES INC
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE SCHOOL OF ARTS INC

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.

Haslam Family Foundation IncTN32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Haslam Family Foundation Inc · East Tennessee Foundation · Stowers Machinery Foundation Inc · Bill and Crissy Haslam Foundation · The Aslan Foundation · The Boyd Foundation · The Clayton Family Foundation · Lawson Family Foundation · Regal Foundation · Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville · The Clayton Homes Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida 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 organization Lamp 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 Lamp Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lamp Foundation 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 70 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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