Tennessee · Private foundation
The Knapp Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $230k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Knapp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $230k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $271k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $326k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $264k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $260k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $310k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $270k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $204k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alice Lloyd College | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Palmer Home for Children | $131,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Memphis Union Misson | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Appalachia Service Project Inc | $97,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Harwood Center Inc | $90,000 | 8 | 1% |
| American Heritage Girls Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Memphis Child Advocacy Center | $79,700 | 8 | 1% |
| Mifa Corporation | $74,270 | 8 | 4% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($502k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Knapp Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Knapp Foundation
- How much does The Knapp Foundation give?
- The Knapp Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $230,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Knapp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Health (15%), Education (15%).
- Who are The Knapp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alice Lloyd College ($200k), Palmer Home for Children ($131k), Mid-South Food Bank ($110k).
- Does The Knapp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Knapp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Knapp Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, United Way of the Mid South.
- Where is The Knapp Foundation based?
- The Knapp Foundation is based in TN.
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