Georgia · Private foundation
The Knox Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2024
- 106
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 81 to 107
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $102M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Knox Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $571k 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 | 82 | $4.4M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 106 | $3.9M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $3.6M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $3.3M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $3.8M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 107 | $4.1M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 103 | $3.8M | 19% |
| FY2017 | 105 | $3.6M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Augusta Symphony Inc | $2,155,000 | 8 | 29% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,300,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart Cultural Center Inc | $1,148,000 | 8 | 43% |
| Child Enrichment Inc | $1,055,500 | 8 | 12% |
| Augusta Players Inc | $905,000 | 8 | 50% |
| Apparo Academy Inc | $791,750 | 6 | 11% |
| Golden Harvest Food Bank Inc | $761,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art Inc | $695,000 | 7 | 24% |
| Fore Augusta Foundation Inc | $521,000 | 5 | 91% |
| Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 123 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($10M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Knox Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · University Health Services Inc · Storey Foundation Inc · George a Sancken Jr Foundation · Tr Dorothy M Buttolph Fdn · Arthur H Merry & Ernest B Merry Foundation Inc · United Way of the Csra Inc · Kirby Family Foundation Inc · Rhodes Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Rehabilitation Institute Inc
How this is measured
About The Knox Foundation
- How much does The Knox Foundation give?
- The Knox Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $4,368,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 107 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Knox Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (16%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are The Knox Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Augusta Symphony Inc ($2.2M), The Salvation Army ($1.3M), Sacred Heart Cultural Center Inc ($1.1M).
- Does The Knox Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Knox Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Knox Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc, Creel-Harison Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Knox Foundation based?
- The Knox Foundation is based in GA.
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