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KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC

KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,483,226 to it, the largest being LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS ($391,438). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.0M
Revenue FY2024
29
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$5.1M
Net assets
15/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,384 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin17% · above the median
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,384 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.7M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 99 ($2.7M) Expenses 87 ($2.2M) Net assets 140 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 119 ($3.2M) Expenses 123 ($3.1M) Net assets 152 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 169 ($4.5M) Expenses 159 ($3.9M) Net assets 201 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 152 ($4.1M) Expenses 162 ($4.0M) Net assets 206 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 197 ($5.3M) Expenses 205 ($5.1M) Net assets 223 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 262 ($7.1M) Expenses 248 ($6.2M) Net assets 295 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 299 ($8.0M) Expenses 268 ($6.7M) Net assets 407 ($5.1M)
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Revenue (299)Expenses (268)Net assets (407)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 69% · 2018 52% · 2019 42% · 2020 52% · 2021 72% · 2022 72% · 2023 53% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,725 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$211k
17
$497k
18
$157k
19
$599k
20
$61k
21
$224k
22
$894k
23
$1.4M
24
3.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $95k → $217k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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: $1.3M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Knoxvilleinc). These are real filings, and they are not money KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION 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

KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

57% 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 LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC.

26%
largest funder
53%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 61% · 2019 29% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 18%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

44% of KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 10 states in all.

WA
OH
PA
CO
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.7M on record.

Federal$24.7M
grants $24.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$16.6M
  • Department of Justice$5.4M
  • Department of Agriculture$2.2M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$500k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Tennessee

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 3%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

86%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • The Regas Building LLC · disregarded
  • Compassion Coalition LLC · disregarded
  • Elm Street LLC · disregarded
  • Callahan Flats Gp LLC · disregarded
  • Swan Bakery Building LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,483,226 to it, the largest being LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS ($391,438). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,483,226 in grants to KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $391,438 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KNOXVILLE LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing