Tennessee · Nonprofit
TURN UP KNOX
TURN UP KNOX (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TURN UP KNOX has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,529 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- United Way of Greater Knoxvilleincshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Lawson Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Clayton Homes Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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: 2022 100% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TURN UP KNOX’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TURN UP KNOX’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
TURN UP KNOX leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 TURN UP KNOX.
“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.
Where its funders are
TURN UP KNOX draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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.
- United Way of Greater Knoxvilleincshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 103 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lawson Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchTN · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 55 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Clayton Homes Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Willayne E Towe Christian Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTN · backs 6 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Akima Club Inclocalportfolio matchTN · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Covenant Healthlocalportfolio matchTN · funds 32 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Melrose Foundationlocalportfolio matchTN · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cornerstone Foundation of Knoxvillelocalportfolio matchTN · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jane L Pettway Foundationshared fundersTN · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- The Aslan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Boyd Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lamp Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like TURN UP KNOX
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TURN UP KNOX: 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.
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 TURN UP KNOX?
- TURN UP KNOX (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,000 to it, the largest being The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform ($85,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TURN UP KNOX have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $90,000 in grants to TURN UP KNOX, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TURN UP KNOX?
- The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TURN UP KNOX 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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