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Tr Uw Trabant North Knox County at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 FUND: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 15%NORTH KNOX SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $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%NORTH KNOX SWIMLAND: $10k → 15%NORTH KNOX FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC: $10k → 15%BICKNELL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%VIGO TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%CITY OF BICKNELL: $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
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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 38 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 recipientCITY OF BICKNELL: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Duke Energy Foundation
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

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 Tr Uw Trabant North Knox County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tr Uw Trabant North Knox County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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