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.

The Knapp Foundation

The Knapp Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Knapp Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$230k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$437kHealth$331kEducation$327kHousing & Shelter$286kCommunity Improvement$130kFood & Nutrition$117kYouth Development$105kCrime & Legal$92kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $123k
$10k–50k8 grants · $107k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE	$25,000
PALMER HOME FOR CHILDREN	$17,000
ST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL	$15,000
TURNING POINT USA	$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$10,000
MEMPHIS UNION MISSION	$10,000
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK	$10,000
HARWOOD CENTER	$10,000
BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER	$9,000
AVE MARIA HOME	$7,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$7,000
A WAY OUT MINISTRIES	$7,000
SHRINE HOSPITAL CRIPPLE CHILDREN	$5,000
MERITAN	$5,000
BRINKLEY HEIGHTS MINISTRIES	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 44 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+55%

Still filing today

64%

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

AL
ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE
8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +152%
MF
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK
6× · 2019–2024 · $110k · revenue +94%
AS
APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +88%

Funded once

RE
RALEIGH EGYPT AIR FORCE JROTC
one grant, 2023 · $25k
NA
NATIVE AMERICAN INDIGENOUS MINISTRY
one grant, 2023 · $18k
CC
Camp Conquestgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +462%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services

Harding Academy of Memphis Inc

Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.

Education

Mission Mississippi

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.

Civil Rights

United Methodist Ministry With Children and Families Inc

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…

Human Services

Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services

Presbyterian children's homes and services provides a variety of christ-centered care and support to children and families in need.

Human Services

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

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…

Health

Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services

Memphis Recovery Centers Inc

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,…

Health

Tennessee Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services

Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health

United Methodist Children's Home

Serving abused, neglected and abandoned children through group homes and foster care; facilitating adoptions; and family preservation.

Human Services

Mission Clinical Services

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Museum of Memphis Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/36

Grantees still filing

25/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,061,000Human Services$277,500Education$272,000Housing & Shelter$197,500Health$140,750Community Improvement$129,770Food & Nutrition$110,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN46.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Knapp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Knapp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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