Tennessee · Nonprofit
KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT
KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,833 to it, the largest being THE ASLAN FOUNDATION ($91,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $323k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $474k
What Knoxville History Project does
Mission
The mission of the Knoxville History Project is to research and promote the history and culture of knoxville, tennessee. The Knoxville History Projects (khp) stories, programs, and publications both educate and help residents and visitors understand the citys past, as well as its complicated but dynamic heritage, and to gain an appreciation for the citys culture. Khp also conducts historical research on buildings and places. The organizations biggest single project, the knoxville mercury newspaper, launched in 2015 ceased production in july 2017. Remaining assets from the mercury were sold in 2017 and early 2018 including balance of notes payable in the amount of 100,000 (shown as capital gain/loss) which resulted in cancellation of indebtedness income. Following the closure of the mercury, khp has continues to focus its mission entirely educational programs described above.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of the Knoxville History Project is to research and promote the history and culture of knoxville, tennessee. The Knoxville History Projects (khp) stories, programs, and publications both educate and help residents and visitors understand the citys past, as well as its complicated but dynamic heritage, and to gain an appreciation for the citys culture. Khp also conducts historical research on buildings and places. The organizations biggest single project, the knoxville mercury newspaper, launched in 2015 ceased production in july 2017. Remaining assets from the mercury were sold in 2017 and early 2018 including balance of notes payable in the amount of 100,000 (shown as capital gain/loss) which resulted in cancellation of indebtedness income. Following the closure of the mercury, khp has continues to focus its mission entirely educational programs described above.
$182,913 spent$106,461 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe mission of the Knoxville History Project is to research and promote the history and culture of knoxville, tennessee. The Knoxville History Projects (khp) stories, programs, and publications both educate and help residents and visitors understand the citys past, as well as its complicated but dynamic heritage, and to gain an appreciation for the citys culture. Khp also conducts historical research on buildings and places. The organizations biggest single project, the knoxville mercury newspaper, launched in 2015 ceased production in july 2017. Remaining assets from the mercury were sold in 2017 and early 2018 including balance of notes payable in the amount of 100,000 (shown as capital gain/loss) which resulted in cancellation of indebtedness income. Following the closure of the mercury, khp has continues to focus its mission entirely educational programs described above.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $182,913.
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 2022 to 2023, from $297k to $391k (+32%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 5% · 2021 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $21k → $38k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $46k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville). These are real filings, and they are not money KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT raised.
From the IRS filings of KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT’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
KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 95% · 2021 58% · 2022 81% · 2023 52% — 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
75% of KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 64% 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
100% of KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT: 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 KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT?
- KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT (Tennessee) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $233,833 to it, the largest being THE ASLAN FOUNDATION ($91,800). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $233,833 in grants to KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT?
- THE ASLAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KNOXVILLE HISTORY PROJECT 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 11 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