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Lamp Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +77%
- BCBECK CULTURAL EXCHANGE CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +281%
- KSKNOXVILLE SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- EDEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF EAST TNone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TLTHE LINKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- HTHEAVENLY TREASURESone 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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
Public library for the benefit of the town providing library access and services for the community
Knoxville botanical gardens and arboretum provides and maintains gardens for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.
To provide financial support for the knoxville museum of art.
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.
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.
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.
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 field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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