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Tr Uw Trabant North Knox County

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$54k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$443kPublic Safety & Disaster$158kReligion$72kCommunity Improvement$36kHuman Services$33kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$8kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$19,158
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION$53,600
OAKTOWN-BUSSERON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMEN$25,000
Individual grant recipient$23,681
Individual grant recipient$19,158
Individual grant recipient$5,830
NORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES$5,248
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FREELANDVILLE IMPROVEMENT CLUB INC: $15k → 15%FREELANDVILLE IMPROVEMENT CLUB INC: $9k → 15%TOWN OF BRUCEVILLE: $24k → 15%TOWN OF BRUCEVILLE: $16k → 15%FIRE DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP I: $15k → 15%WASHINGTON TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $13k → 15%EDWARDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $28k → 15%TOWN OF EDWARDSPORT: $16k → 15%TOWN OF EDWARDSPORT: $10k → 15%EDWARDSPORT PARK BOARD: $9k → 15%TOWN OF SANDBORN: $6k → 15%OAKTOWN-BUSSERON TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMEN: $25k → 15%TOWN OF OAKTOWN: $15k → 15%FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $15k → 15%OAKTOWN CONSERVATION CLUB INC: $15k → 15%TOWN OF OAKTOWN: $13k → 15%OAKTOWN-BUSSERON TWP FIRE DEPT: $12k → 15%FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $8k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $62k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $54k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $50k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $47k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $43k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $36k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION: $29k → 15%CITY OF BICKNELL: $24k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 15%CITY OF BICKNEL: $19k → 15%NORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $18k → 15%CITY OF BICKNEL: $17k → 15%BICKNELL AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $14k → 15%CITY OF BICKNELL: $11k → 15%BICKNELL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%CITY OF BICKNELL: $10k → 15%VIGO TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%NORTH KNOX SWIMLAND: $10k → 15%NORTH KNOX FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC: $10k → 15%CITY OF BICKNEL: $9k → 15%BICKNELL AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 15%BICKNELL AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 15%NORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES: $6k → 15%CITY OF BICKNEL: $6k → 15%BICKNELL AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOC: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$869k · 18 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$869k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+32%

Still filing today

17%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NK
    NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $323k
  • NK
    NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    4× · 2017–2021 · $80k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2022–2025 · $51k

Funded once

  • FD
    FIRE DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +32%
  • OC
    OAKTOWN CONSERVATION CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +49% · 36% of their budget
  • WT
    WASHINGTON TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +28%

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 38 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATION — $322,985 · OtherNORTH KNOX SCHOOL CORPORATIONNORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $80,000 · OtherNORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUNDIndividual grant recipient — $50,893 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $44,989 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $42,545 · OtherNORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · OtherBICKNELL AREA MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION — $38,758 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $36,239 · OtherFREELANDVILLE IMPROVEMENT CLUB INC — $35,617 · OtherNORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES — $33,006 · Other+23 more — $210,923 · Other+23 moreEDWARDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $38,400 · Public Safety & DisasterOAKTOWN CONSERVATION CLUB INC — $14,645 · Public Safety & DisasterWASHINGTON TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $12,745 · Public Safety & DisasterVIGO TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART — $12,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWARRIOR BOOSTER CLUB INC — $2,400 · Recreation & Sports
Other$935,955Public Safety & Disaster$77,790Recreation & Sports$2,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDWARDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT — $38,400 over 4y, 26% of budgetNORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES — $33,006 over 6y, 27% of budgetFIRE DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOAKTOWN CONSERVATION CLUB INC — $14,645 over 1y, 36% of budgetWASHINGTON TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $12,745 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetVIGO TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART — $12,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budget
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 EDWARDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
  • Who funds NORTH KNOX SOCIAL MINISTRIES
  • Who funds FIRE DEPARTMENT OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP INC
  • Who funds OAKTOWN CONSERVATION CLUB INC
  • Who funds WASHINGTON TWP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
  • Who funds VIGO TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPART
  • Who funds WARRIOR BOOSTER CLUB 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Duke Energy FoundationNC11.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation

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 Tr Uw Trabant North Knox County 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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