Tennessee · Nonprofit
Knoble Inc
Knoble Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,514 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($285,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $813k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $580k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Knoble Inc does
Mission
The Organization is a nonprofit network of financial crime professionals and law enforcement, serving as a catalyst for systemic changes that improve the ability to prevent, detect, and respond to Human Crime e.g., trafficking, child sexual exploitation, senior financial exploitation, and financial scams. The mission is to awaken, equip, and deploy financial crimes professionals to fight human crime.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Human Trafficking: In 2024, The Knoble advanced its efforts to combat human trafficking through several key initiatives. During our Super Bowl 2024 project, we partnered with 31 organizations to deploy updated trafficking model scenarios designed for seamless integration into existing systems. This initiative identified 161 potential trafficking-related hits, leading to 8 referrals to law enforcement. An additional 15 hits were detected using targeted data, generating 12 more law enforcement referrals. To foster collaboration and education across the financial sector, we hosted three roundtables on human trafficking, drawing 253 unique participants. We also developed a Human Trafficking Investigative Guide, which provides practitioners with red flags and best practices for investigating suspected trafficking cases, as well as a comprehensive report titled Human Trafficking Explained: Uniting Key Stakeholders and Industries to Disrupt Exploitation that outlines the broader crime landscape and emphasizes the need for cross-industry cooperation to effectively disrupt human trafficking networks.
$195,274 spent29% of program spendingScams: In 2024, The Knoble expanded its efforts to help financial institutions and partners address scams that target vulnerable individuals. We hosted six scam-focused roundtables, engaging 404 unique participants in discussions on red flags, technology, effective practices, and collaborative solutions. To equip practitioners with practical tools, we published a Romance Scams Red Flags Guide and an Offshore Scams Infographic, both designed to enhance detection and prevention efforts. We also hosted a fireside chat with a scam victim, providing a powerful customer perspective on the warning signs of scams and underscoring the importance of vigilance and early intervention.
$195,274 spent29% of program spendingNetwork Engagement: In 2024, The Knoble advanced several initiatives to strengthen collaboration across industries in the fight against human crime. We convened a working group of financial institutions and law enforcement to develop a SAR Addendum Template designed to improve the effectiveness of SAR filings. By ensuring that actionable intelligence is included, this tool helps law enforcement build stronger cases and secure arrest warrants. This was completed in 2025. We also launched a National Awareness Campaign aimed at unifying language and messaging around the four human crimes The Knoble focuses on. This effort includes a strategic awareness month calendar and key slogans to help participants amplify a consistent, cohesive message across industries. In partnership with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University (CINA), we hosted a Human Crime Workshop in Washington, D.C. The event brought together 57 representatives from law enforcement, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, and other sectors to strengthen collaboration, discuss SAR effectiveness, and plan national education efforts. This…
$156,219 spent24% of program spendingChild Sexual Exploitation CSE: In 2024, The Knoble advanced several critical initiatives to combat child sexual exploitation (CSE). We released a PDF version of our CSE Investigative Guide to make the material more accessible and digestible for practitioners. We also hosted a roundtable on the urgent issue of sextortion, bringing together 45 participants for an impactful discussion on risks, prevention, and response strategies. Through Project Umbra, we continued our partnership with top financial institutions and the Child Rescue Coalition, leveraging critical data on child predators. By encouraging banks to include a specific hashtag in SAR filings, Umbra contributed to at least two cases in which law enforcement used an Umbra-related SAR to support an arrest warrant. In addition, we launched the Sextortion Tabletop and Interdiction Map Project (completed in 2025), which brings together law enforcement, financial institutions, telecommunications, and social media platforms to map critical information flows in sextortion cases. Through weekly cross-sector collaboration, we developed actionable strategies to better protect children and disrupt offenders? networks.
$117,165 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $663,932.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $57k to $110k (+94%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of Knoble Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dave Worland
Executive Director
Board chair
Ian Mitchell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $32k → $100k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Knoble Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Knoble Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Knoble Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 69% · 2021 83% · 2022 57% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of Knoble Inc's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
65% of Knoble Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $200k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $380k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Knoble Inc receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $580k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Knoble Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Knoble Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Knoble Inc?
- Knoble Inc (Tennessee) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $579,514 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($285,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Knoble Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $579,514 in grants to Knoble Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Knoble Inc?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Knoble Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing