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The Knapp 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 $10k26 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN | $17,000 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNION MISSION | $10,000 |
| MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| HARWOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $9,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| AVE MARIA HOME | $7,000 |
| A WAY OUT MINISTRIES | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE MAILBOX CLUB | $5,000 |
| MIFA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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; $30k 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
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +152%
- MFMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +94%
- ASAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- RERALEIGH EGYPT AIR FORCE JROTCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NANATIVE AMERICAN INDIGENOUS MINISTRYone grant, 2023 · $18k
- CCCamp Conquestgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +462%
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.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Methodist childrens homes seeks to bring restoration to children and youth who have been neglected or abused. by the end of their time with us, we hope to see that they find reconciliation with their biological families, love within an…
Presbyterian children's homes and services provides a variety of christ-centered care and support to children and families in need.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Tennessee children's home, inc. is a not-for-profit organization that provides a home for neglected and pre-delinquent children who have an unstable family situation and who are beginning to develop problems which cannot be solved in their…
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Serving abused, neglected and abandoned children through group homes and foster care; facilitating adoptions; and family preservation.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridges. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 66 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 ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIFA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY VALUES INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds CALVARY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Choices of Memphis Inc ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Tipton-Rosemark Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds MERITAN INC ↗
- Who funds BRINKLEY HEIGHTS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Grace House of Memphis Tennessee ↗
- Who funds Camp Conquest ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · United Way of the Mid South · Pk Seidman Charitable Trust · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Plough Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · Flora Belle Moss and Bessie Abigail Moss Foundation · Speer Charitable Trust
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 The Knapp 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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