· Community foundation
Knox County Foundation
To improve the quality of life in Knox County through planned charitable giving.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of Knox County Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $3,384,821 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,311,478 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,926,657 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k24 grants · $576k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Knox Development Partnership | $500,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $392,542 |
| Foundation for Knox Comm Hosp | $320,900 |
| Acacia Fraternity Foundation | $275,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Knox Co | $176,360 |
| Schwab Charitable | $160,869 |
| United Way of Knox County | $133,963 |
| Interchurch Social Services | $118,035 |
| First Congreg United Church | $100,073 |
| Vista Village Inc | $99,500 |
| Kenyon College | $86,750 |
| Mt Vernon Nazarene Univ | $71,176 |
| Knox Co Regional Airport | $60,100 |
| Food for the Hungry | $56,870 |
| Woodward Development Corp | $53,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k 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
- KDKNOX DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +147% · 100% of their budget
- ISINTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX7× · 2017–2024 · $889k · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- JBJACKET BOOSTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $110k · revenue +69% · 46% of their budget
- OCOWL CREEK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +12%
- LSLOUDONVILLE-PERRYSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -54% · 25% of their budget
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.
To provide services for senior citizens in knox county
To improve the quality of life in Knox County through planned charitable giving. To provide a vehicle for donors of varied interests to support charitable and community activities. To assess and respond to emerging and changing community…
To secure philanthrophic support from individuals, businesses, and organizations for the advancement of exceptional health care at knoxville hospital & clinics through advocacy, fundraising, and stewardship of contributions.
Dedicated to the preservation, restoration and transformation of architecturally and/or historically significant buildings, open spaces and parks in knoxville and knox county.
The mission of the organization is to develop teamwork among the social service agencies serving knox county and their constituencies in the interest of the financial support of such agencies, and the effective planning and execution of…
The knox county land reutilization corporation (the "land bank") strengthens neighborhoods and preserves property values by strategically returning vacant, abandoned, tax-delinquent, and other properties to their most productive, and…
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…
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
Maple knoll communities, inc. is recognized as a growing provider of outstanding senior communities and services that allows those we serve to thrive in a stimulating and dignified environment. this will be accomplished through creativity…
Committed to serving members of our parish and our larger community with outreach, financial support and prayer
To benefit the knoxville community and foster economic development.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 108 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 THE KNOX COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNOX DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCHURCH SOCIAL SERVICES OF KNOX ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MOUNT VERNON OHIO ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KNOX COUNTY OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Acacia Fraternity Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY DBA ARIEL-FOUNDATION PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREEDOM CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT VERNON ARTS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS THE DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELT AND RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WOODWARD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds AREA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLADENSBURG COMMUNITY HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KNOX COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Knox County Head Start Inc ↗
- Who funds KNOX COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JACKET BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds OWL CREEK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LOUDONVILLE-PERRYSVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERBURG SENIOR SERVICES 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: The Ariel Foundation · United Way of Knox County Ohio Inc · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Richard & Arline Landers Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Peoples Bank Foundation · The Burgett Family Foundation · Licking County Foundation Inc · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Elizabeth Ring Mather William Gwinn Mather Fund
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 Knox County 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.