Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION
KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,164,267 to it, the largest being THE BOYD FOUNDATION ($932,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What Knox Education Foundation does
Mission
To advocate for student academic success in knox county through research, data-driven innovation, collaboration, and public policy initiatives
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special projects and school improvement intiatives contains intatives and programs that are pilots to evaluate long term viability and impact. These special projects focus on educational initiatives, strategic consulting, one book read city, playspace fund and research, analytics and school innovation.
$1,161,060 spent52% of program spendingAwards and grants consists of projects that are funded by restricted donations and government funding. For the current year these include 865 academies, kcs project support and priority based grants.
$716,728 spent32% of program spendingProject grad assist with family & community engagement and offers additional support, interventions, and resources to austin-east and fulton high schools. A scholarship is earned by qualifying students who enroll in accredited post-secondary institutions or trade school. Grad provides access to resources to increase on-time graduation rates, post-secondary enrollment and to reduce barriers to student success. Intentional focus is given to students from disadvantaged circumstances, from communties of concentrated challenges, and those underrepresented in higher education.
$344,893 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,222,681.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $8.8M to $6.4M (−28%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 56% · 2019 29% · 2021 64% · 2022 61% · 2023 68% · 2024 45% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Michael Taylor
CEO
Board chair
Scott Broyles
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $10k → $1.2M.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Great Schools Partnership Charitable Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 39% · 2021 21% · 2022 32% · 2023 37% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
97% of KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $529k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,164,267 to it, the largest being THE BOYD FOUNDATION ($932,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,164,267 in grants to KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- THE BOYD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $932,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOX EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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