Does John S And James L Knight Foundation Inc accept unsolicited proposals?

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John S And James L Knight Foundation Inc

Miami, FL · EIN 650464177 · Website (ProPublica) ↗ · 990s on ProPublica ↗

Assets

$2.5B

Total Giving

$218.8M

Grants on File

809

Average Grant

$271K

Giving Radius

Where John S And James L Knight Foundation Inc Has Given

Historical grants to 457 recipients across 37 states. Top concentrations: MIAMI ($40.2M, 100 grants), AKRON ($20.2M, 40 grants), WASHINGTON ($18.9M, 74 grants), NEW YORK ($16.9M, 70 grants), DETROIT ($14.7M, 33 grants). Plus international giving not shown on this map.

Section I

How to Apply

Applications for funding are submitted electronically via the Foundation website. Please go to www.kf.org to apply for a grant. For Journalism, Communities, National and Arts programs, please include the following information in our online form: - Tell us about the opportunity presented by your idea/project, what it will transform, and the impact it will have. How will it create lasting, visible change? - Tell us how you identified this opportunity and why the time is right for it - What other partners or funders are involved in the idea/project? - How will you measure success? - How are you uniquely qualified to implement your idea/project? - Please describe organizational and financial capacity to implement your idea/project including any business plan - How will your idea/project be sustained beyond Knight Foundation's funding?

On Unsolicited Proposals yes

Restrictions

Any restrictions or limitations on awards, such as by geographical areas, charitable fields, kind of institutions, or other factors: - Medical research, organizations or projects whose mission is to prevent, eradicate, and/or alleviate the effects of a specific disease - Political campaigns and legislative lobbying efforts - Projects that exclusively serve religious purposes - Direct support for individuals

Section IV

Recent Grants

Recipient	Location	Amount	Purpose	Year
Yale University	New Haven, CT	$165K	To support press freedom and freedom of information by providing pro bono legal services to journalists and expand and strengthen a national network of fIRSt amendment legal clinics.	2022
Yale University	New Haven, CT	$341K	To Advance the Study of the Rules and Norms that Govern the New Digital Public Sphere of Social Media Through Support of the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School.	2022
Young Black Leadership Alliance	Charlotte, NC	$10K	To Support the Mission of Young Black Leadership Alliance or ybla of developing young black leaders whohave a positive impact in their community and beyond.	2022
West Side Clt	Charlotte, NC	$300K	To Expand the Capacity of Charlottes West Side Community Land Trust (wsclt) to acquire land and develop affordable housing.	2022
World Wide Web Foundation	Washington, DC	$200K	Support Continued Operations for the World Wide Web Foundation as it executes a back to basics strategic repositioning.	2022
Wgbh Educational Foundation	Boston, MA	$788K	To inform communities by expanding high-quality local accountability and investigative reporting in areas with limited access to news and information.	2022
Voteorg	Oakland, CA	$25K	To support the mission of vote.org, to simplify political engagement, INCrease voter turnout, and strengthen american democracy.	2022
Vesey Foundation INC	Brooklyn, NY	$5K	To Support the Mission of Vcfamilia Corp Via the Vesey Foundation, which supports ambitious problem-solvers around the world.	2022
Victoria Theater Arts Center	St Paul, MN	$25K	To provide operating support to victoria theater arts center to enableprofessional development, strategic consulting, And Program Development As the Emerging Organization works to revitalize a historic st. Paul theater into a community arts center.	2022
Various - Matching Gifts to Public Charities	Miami, FL	$1.2M	Other description	2022
Various - Charitable Sponsorships	Miami, FL	$401K	Other description	2022
Veggielution	San Jose, CA	$50K	Veggielution will plan, develop, program and operate a new public space for the sofa neighborhood by transforming a derelict lot. From this work, veggielution will create a template that can be used by other organizations to transform other blighted spaces.	2022
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI	$150K	To Provide Administrative Support for the Center for Communication and Civic Renewal at the University of Wisconsin-madison.	2022
Uplift Solutions INC	Philadelphia, PA	$75K	To demonstrate url medias capacity to grow audience and revenue for an expanding network of high performing bipoc non-profit media organizations.	2022
University of Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI	$333K	To support the continuance and expansion of a Comprehensive Multi-year Study of Wisconsin's State and Regional Communications Systems at the University of Wisconsin.	2022
University of Washington Foundation	Seattle, WA	$890K	To Establish the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington.	2022
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College	Burlington, VT	$70K	Launch the center for community news, a national resource for universities expanding or starting academic/localnews partnerships that will contribute original news reporting and create capacity for local media platforms.	2022
University of Oregon Foundation	Eugene, OR	$180K	To document, evaluate, and disseminate the key learnings of the knight av initiative as it seeks to ensure residents needs are at the center of designing and deploying autonomous vehicle (av) and new mobility technologies, and to support the cohort in becoming national leaders in the deployment of resident-centered, equity-driven autonomous services by leveraging learnings around 1) public engagement, 2) equity issues, 3) models of governance, and 4) tools and levers	2022
University of Southern California	Los Angeles, CA	$294K	To improve the understanding of how internet and social media technologies affect social, organizational and political behaviors by leveraging the research, training and dissemination capacities of business schools.	2022
University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, IN	$35K	To support a convening of leading democracy scholars on threats to american democracy and approaches to addressing knowledge gaps about media and information technology as they pertain to democracy.	2022
University of Nebraska Foundation	Lincoln, NE	$39K	Cover funding shortfall for 2022 conference, allowing organizers to refocus on long-term viability and consider new methods to disseminate learnings from this important-but-specialized conference.	2022
University of Miami	Miami, FL	$225K	To support a series of conversations with business, civic and government leaders on the role of technology in supporting democracy across the americas.	2022
University of Miami	Miami, FL	$120K	To support research and convening on free expression online.	2022
University of Miami	Miami, FL	$250K	To Upgrade and Expand the Digital Capacity of the Cosford Cinema at the University of Miami.	2022
University of Miami	Miami, FL	$567K	To Support the Growth of the Institute for data science and computing, an interdisciplinary center of scholarship that enables data science research, Application and Education at the University of Miami.	2022

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Section VI

Filing History

Year-by-year financial summary from IRS 990-PF filings. Total assets and qualifying distributions show the foundation's growth and giving trajectory.

Year	Total Assets	Qualifying Distributions	Total Revenue	Total Expenses
2023	$2.5B	$121.7M	$86.9M	$222.8M
2022	$2.5B	$133.1M	$66.9M	$147.4M
2020	$2.5B	$107.6M	$183.1M	$117.9M
2019	$2.3B	$111.1M	$170.2M	$188.8M
2015	$2.1B	$110.8M	$143.9M	$178.8M
2014	$2.3B	$112.4M	$182.7M	$177.4M
2013	$2.3B	$106.9M	$178.5M	$109.6M
2012	$2.1B	$102.5M	$113.6M	$130.3M
2011	$2.0B	$105.4M	$121.1M	$118.1M