Tennessee · Public charity
Rotary Foundation of Knoxville
To provide scholarships to deserving students and to assist other charitable organizations through cash allocations.
- $140k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $10k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Rotary Foundation of Knoxville funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $38k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $19k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centro Hispano de East Tennessee | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Harmony Family Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wesley House Community Center Co | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Interfaith Health Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Mamas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $8,700 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($74k), not named here.
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: United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc · Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc · Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee · East Tennessee Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Rotary Foundation of Knoxville
- How much does Rotary Foundation of Knoxville give?
- Rotary Foundation of Knoxville reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $140,416 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rotary Foundation of Knoxville fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (14%), Community Improvement (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Rotary Foundation of Knoxville's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Centro Hispano de East Tennessee ($10k), Harmony Family Center Inc ($10k), Wesley House Community Center Co ($10k).
- Does Rotary Foundation of Knoxville fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Foundation of Knoxville?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc, Gene & Florence Monday Foundation Inc, Trinity Health Foundation of East Tennessee.
- Where is Rotary Foundation of Knoxville based?
- Rotary Foundation of Knoxville is based in TN.
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